[yayoohooyahoo]

I wish backward compatibility was a thing in js library development but clearly there's nothing fun in keeping things working, so developers break API all the time for no reasons.

I don't how many time I was dealing with a breaking changes for trivial things like making an API prettier, renaming a few functions, a few parameters here and there because it suits the author's aesthetic sensibilities.

They're of course perfectly free to do this and being open source they don't owe anything to anybody, but I still wish that there was some degree of responsibility towards the end user. Or else why even release the code publicly? End users don't care *at all* how pretty the API is, we just want things to work.

[johnny22]

> Or else why even release the code publicly?

So folks who would rather not have to write the functionality themselves can use it (like myself). Nobody is forcing you to use any of this.