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title: ChronVer — Chronologic Versioning
date:  2025-07-25
tags:  programming, productivity
tldr:  Versioning for the rest of us
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Version numbers are commonplace in programming, in addition to READMEs,
CHANGELOGs, &c. SemVer is the universal standard for versioning but _adherence_
to it is loose at best. There’s no shortage of questions on how to use it
properly and personally, I never cared to debate the merits of how much work
quantifies a MINOR or PATCH version. My frustration with SemVer and my love for
the **proper** date format (YYYY.MM.DD) led to me creating ChronVer in
2019[1] (unbeknownst to me at the time, CalVer exists[2]).

This first version did what I needed it to do and even spawned a Rust crate[3]
from someone who happened to come across it. In the time since though, I fell in
love with Deno and wanted to upgrade ChronVer. No new features to the library
aside from the CLI being a proper executable now, and the homepage[4] for
ChronVer is less technical and more personable. For my personal projects,
ChronVer is perfect but I acknowledge that it’s not the best for _every_ type of
project. Another fun feature of the homepage is that it uses the current date
for its examples. Why merely talk about it when you can show it?

Anyhoo, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

🕸️

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[1]: https://github.com/ChronVer/chronver-original
[2]: https://calver.org
[3]: https://github.com/dnaka91/chronver
[4]: https://chronver.org