When I first heard about Semantic Versioning, or SemVer, I thought it was one of those ideas that's so obviously right that we were all going to benefit from someone having just codified it and written it down. In a nutshell, it's the idea that your software should be versioned with a three-part string in…

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Semantic Versioning is the idea of versioning software with a three-part string format. It allows for backward compatibility and incrementing version numbers for bug fixes and feature additions. However, some people interpret it as permission to make breaking changes, leading to a frequent release of major versions in various software ecosystems.

Semantic Versioning is a terrible mistake