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I suspect this depends on what area you work in. If you're making corporate webapps, they'll stick around for a long time (hell, they probably still need to sup
by untog 11y ago
I suspect this depends on what area you work in. If you're making corporate webapps, they'll stick around for a long time (hell, they probably still need to support IE7) but if you're consumer facing, things like mobile would be far more likely to require a rewrite.
(for the record, I'm not 20 years old either. However, an decade old C# desktop app I wrote back when I was is still in use at an old corporate workplace)
- wvenable 11y agoAll my early work was in consumer web sites and applications. One of my oldest sites is a popular consumer/professional news and review site in a popular niche. There have been several failed attempts at a redesign over the years but it still chugs along and makes money. Absolutely no attempt has ever been made to make it work on mobile and that would definitely be a design requirement now. The back-end even has a nifty Ajax-like component that should still work in Netscape 4. I do corporate web applications now and there is a lot of pressure to support modern browsers and mobile.