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booi | 3 months ago

> So, eventually & reluctantly, I have changed my mind: there will be another major version of htmx.

> However, in order to keep my word that there will not be a htmx 3.0, the next release will instead be htmx 4.0.

technically correct.. the best kind of correct

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SquareWheel|3 months ago

It's an amusing solution, but if this ends up being anything like the missing PHP 6, it's also going to cause confusion for users. It might've been better to just mea culpa and release 3.0 anyway. I can't imagine anybody would really hold it against the author.

pavon|3 months ago

As long as they commit to making the next version after this htmx 8, I will be content with this versioning scheme.

drob518|3 months ago

Apple just jumped to version 26 across all its code bases. I think HTMX can survive with skipping to 4.

johannes1234321|3 months ago

What's the confusion around PHP 6? - There would have been a lot more confusion due to articles, talk slides, even printed books, .. talking about PHP 6's Unicode support would have been truly confusing.

abnercoimbre|3 months ago

A mea culpa would've been just fine. Even Big Tech can't keep their promises around this stuff (Windows 10 was the last OS remember?)

panxyh|3 months ago

Traditionally, software engineers are smart people

SwiftyBug|3 months ago

Maybe they could just initially launch v3.1 instead of a v3.0. They would still be technically correct.

fmbb|3 months ago

Should go directly to htmx 4.1, so we can finally have xhtmx 1.0

jraph|3 months ago

The author is lucky the phrasing wasn't "there won't be another major version of htmx", or even "a third version".

scuff3d|3 months ago

From what I know of Carson from his writing and presentations, he probably worded it that way on purpose knowing he'd eventually do a new version, and he didn't want to miss an opportunity to troll everyone a bit.