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It seems to be a trend in software that has existed for a while to exponentially increase version numbers (see also: Firefox).

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It's a quite linear growth, not exponential

snazzOP6y ago

But the first few numbers went by much more slowly, right?

Exponential would be if they kept getting quicker. They've only gotten quicker once.

I assumed that this was due to more products dropping vanity versioning in favor of semantic versioning. Is that not what's happening here?

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It's a quite linear growth, not exponential

snazzOP6y ago

But the first few numbers went by much more slowly, right?

Exponential would be if they kept getting quicker. They've only gotten quicker once.

I assumed that this was due to more products dropping vanity versioning in favor of semantic versioning. Is that not what's happening here?

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