On Saturday, 12 July 2025 at 23:55:39 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 7/11/25 11:36 PM, Bienlein wrote:
The only thing 'private' achieves is this: You don't want your
users to be disappointed when they go out of their way to use
features that they are advised not to use, and those features
behave differently in the future. Really? That never happens.
Hehe, in my experience, it's the exact opposite: people always
find ways to misuse even the things you designed to be "shared",
if you mistakenly expose something that was supposed to be
internal (that's perhaps not as well designed), it's almost
always instant regret as people will use it and complain it
doesn't do what they thought or whatever.... and yeah, you're
prevented from ever changing the thing that you might have meant
as a temporary, internal hack. But I will admit it's a bit
annoying when people get burned by this too many times and start
"hiding" even the generally useful stuff.
