Steve Losh • 4/23/2012

Volatile Software

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The article is a developer's critique of software stability, categorizing tools into those that frequently break with updates and those that don't. It argues that backward-incompatible changes have a high collective cost for users and calls for software authors to prioritize compatibility.

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