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But how do you want to avoid that? Staying with old libraries forever? In some areas this is possible but in others you have to use newer stuff. I always envy

But how do you want to avoid that? Staying with old libraries forever? In some areas this is possible but in others you have to use newer stuff. I always envy people who work on stuff that’s mainly their own code and not cobbled together from other systems with their questionable APIs.

Crinus 7y ago
> But how do you want to avoid that? Staying with old libraries forever? Well, one way would be those libraries to have backwards compatible APIs so that your code keeps working yet still using the same APIs. Some actually do try that (or at least they claim so), e.g. curl.