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what's the difference between one string (a date) and other string (something vaguely resembling a number)?

Semver contains info by looking at the values. 2.0 introduces breaking changes over 1.7.1.3. What does 2022-11-28 vs 2022-11-30 mean?

Or how many releases are between 2022-11-28 and 2042-11-28? I’m sure there’s a docs page spelling it out with details, but being able to compare two versions and tell if your code will work is pretty handy.

They're only using versioning to indicate breaking changes though. There will never be minor or patch versions in this semver, only ever major (breaking) changes. They're saying "if the version is different in any way, your code might not work because there are breaking changes".

How much the major version changed (v2 -> v3 vs v3 -> v9) doesn't actually tell you how many changes there were. In that way it's almost identical to using major-version-only semver, vs dates.

Author here. We went for dates because they allow you to see, at a glance, roughly how old the version you're using is. We didn't think that semver made sense because, in our versioning system, all new versions are breaking (i.e. major). Hope that makes sense!

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