4: Fred Schott on Breaking Changes - a podcast by Henry Zhu

> What is a breaking change about anyway?

Fred Schott (@FredKSchott) joins Henry to have a discussion around the topic of breaking changes in programming. We chat about Snowpack and Babel's major versions, different vision means a new name (Rome), semver, RFCs, BDFLs, breaking changes as bug fixes, forking, and more (recorded in April)! Transcript at https://podcast.babeljs.io/breaking

Headings:

• Intro: What is a Breaking Change?


• What is Snowpack: V1 to V2


• When is a Breaking Change Just a New Package?


• Re-Defining Semver?


• Famous Coder, Bruce Lee


• Commit: "fix stuff"


• On RFCs


• Project Vision: BDFLs and more


• On Removing Babel's TC39 Stage Presets


• Communicating Breaking Changes: React, Yarn, etc


• Are the Changes We Make Even Helpful?


• Different Vision, Different Name


• React 17, Babel 8?


• Rationalizing Breaking Changes as Bug Fixes


• Breaking Changes and Plugin Ecosystem


• Reverse Transforms for All Proposals


• Project Sustainability and Sponsorship


• Streaming Coding


• The Difficulty of Reaching Out


• Scaling Your Time, Managing Your Attention


• The Freedom of Contributors To Join and Leave


• The Value of Forking


• Platform Funding, Sponsorship


• "Babel Pika Fellowship"

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