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well_ackshually • yesterday at 5:45 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

No, they were never one of mold's goals. You don't get to assign solutions to people _and then blame them_. Hyrum's Law being a load bearing part of your infrastructure isn't Mold's problem.


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jacquesm • yesterday at 5:50 PM

I can't really agree with that. If you ship your linker with a disclaimer saying 'don't use this for early stage stuff, one day we might decide to rewrite the whole codebase in a language that won't be available early enough' then you'd have a point. But if you didn't that is precisely the kind of use case where mold shines, and so inevitably it will be adopted. Your downstream should be precious. At a minimum you should communicate such intentions, do so timely and hear what others have to say, even if afterwards you decide to push on.

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