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Comment by hifromwork

7 months ago

Hyrum's law is specifically about how every change is a breaking change if you have enough users. So it's always a bit subjective. No sane person considers changing an error message a breaking change in context of semver. It's just go going above and beyond to take care of backward compatibility.

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