[tshaddox]

Semantic versioning seems slightly weird to even apply to something like TypeScript. You could have patch releases that fix actual compiler crashes, sure, but what is a minor release?

Surely any new feature that causes code to fail to type check when it previously would pass (or vice versa) would have to be considered a breaking change.

A similar thing applies to code formatting tools like Prettier, or any linter.

[spankalee]

Semantic versions would at least be playing nice with how npm manages version ranges. If every release of TypeScript is breaking, then you should use major versions so that `npm update` doesn't break your project.

Yes, typescript would be at version 60 now. No, that's not a problem at all. Numbers are free.

[ukuina]

> Numbers are free.

Someone please tell the LLM naming committee.