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Lots of C code have already bitrotted because APIs it depends on have been abandoned. Resurrecting it isn't just a matter of compiling the code, but recreating

• tpmx 7y ago
  That was before storage become abundant and cheap; from a source code storage perspective. It will not become more expensive. Nowadays storage capacity is developed to store video - this is really the only thing that needs a lot of new storage capacity. Every line of sourcecode written by every programmer ever is a fart in the wind compared to what's being uploaded to Youtube in the next 60 seconds.
  • joshuamorton 7y ago
    Which does nothing to address "it works on my machine" build related issues. And more modern languages have much more robust solutions to hermetic build and package management.
    • rthille 7y ago
      That's what docker images are for :-)