PuTTY out since 1999 and bumped to 0.82 in 2024 is pretty incredible
replyI think projects that seemingly don't even use Semver (putty uses two instead of three numbers), and also were created before semver was even a "concrete thing" (~2010?), gets a pass on the requirements that semver proposed, like the whole "1.0.0 means stable and in wide use" thing.
replySemver or otherwise, I think even decades ago people understood staying on 0. for years or decades is a bit silly for production software tens of thousands of people use every day.
replyDoing pacman -Q | grep ' 0\.' locally I get 547 hits, with alacritty, bubblewrap, dconf, fzf, hyprland, mtr, neovim and more among them, software that is in wide use already, some of them quite old (dconf apparently almost two decades old).
replyI think people read too much into what is just a number for some projects, while for others (like semver zealots), the numbers carry actual meaning.
It's exactly what we were doing before the semver hype cycle, but with 0. in front!
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