Angular 1 to Angular 2 made me drop angular entirely, that happened less than 6 months ago I believe.
Just reading Angular 4 gives me the creeps.
Is 4 widely different from 2? How am I suppose to know if you using semver and already have a really bad history?
http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2016/10/versioning-and-releasi...
With all people complaining about Java, we don't have to deal with this shit so often.
Most breaking changes I see on the JavaScript ecosystem seem like mostly cosmetic. It has been a rough road trying to make decisions on tech that won't get stale quickly and have support dropped in a 1-2 year frame.
Angular is really one of the worst offenders in this regard. What was so fundamentally broken with Angular v1's api that could not just be worked internally and incremented?
It also has ramifications which are pretty dire in my opinion. We have an app written with Ionic 1, so I go check out Ionic 2 see what's going on, and oh look such shiny things, how do we migrate? Nope, full rewrite of course.
There are some decision makers in these teams which are completely disregarding the fact they are burning through several work hours of people around the globe without real value.
Stop breaking things because new. Fine, use semver, but don't you change that first digit lightly, it hurts when you do.