The often brilliant Steve Yegge on this - make sure you read it entirely - it is both fun and very informative: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc [ archive ].
Choice quote where Steve translates a Google Cloud communication from PR-Speak into English:
Dear RECIPIENT,
Fuck yooooouuuuuuuu. Fuck you, fuck you, Fuck You. Drop whatever you are doing because it’s not important. What is important is OUR time. It’s costing us time and money to support our shit, and we’re tired of it, so we’re not going to support it anymore. So drop your fucking plans and go start digging through our shitty documentation, begging for scraps on forums, and oh by the way, our new shit is COMPLETELY different from the old shit, because well, we fucked that design up pretty bad, heh, but hey, that’s YOUR problem, not our problem.
We remain committed as always to ensuring everything you write will be unusable within 1 year.
Please go fuck yourself,
All in all, the situations Google puts developers into remind me of the classic fire and motion article by Joel Spolsky: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/ [ archive ]
from Hacker News https://ift.tt/3n7F0Yt
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