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The polite way software tells you something works now but won't forever.
means Marking a feature, function, or practice as outdated and discouraged, slated for eventual removal but still functional for now.
from From Latin deprecari, to pray something away — originally begging the gods to avert evil, now begging developers to stop using getElementById the old way.
Two D-wordsDeprecated still works; deleted does not.
Grace periodWarnings now, breakage in a future version.
Politeness goneSelf-deprecation borrows the same praying-it-away root.