Spec-ulation Keynote - Rich Hickey

Why HN readers recommended it

HN returns to it in every versioning and API stability debate as a challenging, contrarian talk worth watching.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

ClojureTV

Topic

software versioning

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

10

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This talk [1] by Rich Hickey seems more pertinent than ever. It's a contrarian stance on semver (which, almost as much as vc itself, is lauded as "the Right way" among developers). He definitely challenged my beliefs, it's likely to be worth your time too. …

• Whenever an idea about API versioning springs into mind it is always worthwhile to watch Rich Hickey's Spec-ulation talk, [VIDEO] for an alternative view of the world.

• To anyone who's interested in this topic, I strongly recommend this talk from Rich Hickey about "giving something to somebody that they can use and making a commitment ": Spec-ulation ( [VIDEO] )