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Not really arguing with your points, but it seems Microsoft has a lot of lessons learnt from maintaining backwards compatibility. It'd be wonderful if their ar
by filereaper 10y ago
Not really arguing with your points, but it seems Microsoft has a lot of lessons learnt from maintaining backwards compatibility.
It'd be wonderful if their architects collected and codified these somewhere, ie "we did X because of Y, it didn't work, because Z ends up happening"
Mostly as a lesson for the rest of us not to fruitlessly repeat.
- jschwartzi 10y agoIt's probably all there in their issue trackers. That's partly why software teams track issues, because somewhere there's a decision to be made and a story to be told, and that story is written in the issue before it's closed. Software development is really all about finishing stories.