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  "path": "/t/why-not-use-smallcheck/13860#post_16",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-01T04:03:18.000Z",
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    "Can we un-obsolete this? I have use cases. · Issue #58 · Bodigrim/smallcheck",
    "@Bodigrim",
    "Yellow badge - Wikipedia",
    "Weak Men Are Superweapons | Slate Star Codex"
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  "textContent": "I had opened an issue Can we un-obsolete this? I have use cases. · Issue #58 · Bodigrim/smallcheck back in July 2025, but Andrey @Bodigrim declined to consider my arguments. I was just regretfully mulling over that conversation in my mind earlier today, thinking about how I could argue my position better. Over time, I have come to believe that this is not a technical matter but a matter of respect.\n\nI believe randomized and exhaustive checking are two complementary, orthogonal approaches, and progress made in one, while a cause for celebration, cannot render the other obsolete. Practically speaking, I shall still use SmallCheck, and I consider this obsolescence warning a kind of a Yellow badge - Wikipedia that de-legitimizes me as a user of Haskell and a contributor to the Haskell ecosystem. The argument of Weak Men Are Superweapons | Slate Star Codex applies. First they mark the package you like as obsolete, then they decline to engage in a conversation with you, and where this is going is that finally they will abandon the package altogether.\n\nI think, however, that this issue is a manifestation of a general trend of maintainers having no respect for and no sense of honourable obligation towards users. Not to engage in a good faith technical discussion, and not to maintain the packages they are the maintainers of. _«As a maintainer, I declare this package unworthy of my effort to maintain it. My great wisdom and experience grant me the privilege to disregard any and all objections on this matter.»_ This kind of attitude erodes whatever ambient good faith is still present in the Haskell community.",
  "title": "Why not use smallcheck?"
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