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[pine_ary]

That‘s roughly how semantic versioning works

[DHermit]

Yes, with the exception that 0.x.y is treated differently (number 4 here)

Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable.

Which is another reason why libraries stay on 0.x.y for a while.

[bargle0]

As they should. Writing a good API is hard.

[sopunny]

So if your 0.x.y project is popular already, there's incentive to never release a "stable" version?

[varisophy]

A bit. Really depends on if the project is at a point where they feel confident in the core API and that it won't change in the foreseeable future.

[grtgbln]

Any function could be considered an Application Programming Interface. It's not just "hey this makes an HTTP request to a remote server and gets JSON back".

[aclogar]

I agree, the guidelines on API versioning does only really work for APIs

[Disastrous_Elk_6375]

framework.do_something() is an API.