I viscerally understand how companies can get stuck and unable to change their products significantly because their installed base will revolt. It's a tough situation.
I viscerally understand how companies can get stuck and unable to change their products significantly because their installed base will revolt. It's a tough situation.
Well, if that's how you're going to behave, foregoing entirely obvious and solved engineering problems, you get to glue all the pieces back together when reality asserts itself. I don't imagine for one minute numpy folks didn't know what this would look like, and they did it anyway. Good on them. Breaking changes are necessary. That's unqualified. Necessary. If you can't afford a big blowup in your work then manage your work.
The Tree of Elegance needs to be refreshed with the blood of both users and programers. Or something like that.
We'd not get very far is the Linux Kernel made breaking ABI changes every year.