Quoting Addy Osmani
Read OriginalThe article shares a profound quote from Addy Osmani on API design, drawn from his 14-year tenure at Google. It argues that with widespread use, all behaviors become dependencies, making compatibility work a core product responsibility, not mere maintenance. The core lesson is that designing for deprecation with proper tooling and empathy is as critical as the initial API design.
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