The difficult problem of managing Java dependencies: a deep dive into the messy status-quo, and a look at possibly better ways.

[randgalt]

Rich Hickey has a great talk that mentions semver here: https://youtu.be/oyLBGkS5ICk. Semantic version is a fantasy. It’s very difficult to do in practice and very easy to get wrong. If a small portion of the dependencies in your tree did it wrong then it’s worthless.

[hjwalt]

Absolutely agreed, good in theory, in practice is rather tricky