Hyrum's Law.¶
Wright, H. (2020). Hyrum's Law.
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- Naming this failure mode supplies a vocabulary ("with sufficient users, all observable behaviours become part of the contract") for a phenomenon common to APIs, bureaucracies, and biological systems.
This sourceStates that with a sufficient number of users, every observable behavior of an interface becomes depended upon — the de-facto-contract / implicit-coupling failure mode (e.g., reliance on iteration order).
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“if an interface has enough consumers, they will collectively depend on every aspect of the implementation, intentionally or not.”
- Naming this failure mode supplies a vocabulary ("with sufficient users, all observable behaviours become part of the contract") for a phenomenon common to APIs, bureaucracies, and biological systems.
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