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  1. yugaego 🌍 @yugaego ·

    Hyrum's Law states that "With a sufficient number of users of an API,
    it does not matter what you promise in the contract:
    all observable behaviors of your system
    will be depended on by somebody."

    Putting it simply: "there is no such thing as a private implementation."

    xkcd.com/1172/

    hyrumslaw.com/

    #til #hyrumslaw #softwareengineering #softwaredesign #api #emacs