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Apple is AFAICT the least concerned of all the major platform vendors about backwards compatibility. Programs routinely stop working on new releases of macOS or
by umanwizard 6y ago
Apple is AFAICT the least concerned of all the major platform vendors about backwards compatibility. Programs routinely stop working on new releases of macOS or iOS, sometimes in ways that are impossible to fix. On Mac they’ve already changed processor architectures twice and look poised to do so again. That’s much more disruptive than the python 2 to 3 migration.
- jen20 6y ago> That’s much more disruptive than the python 2 to 3 migration. Yet Python 2 to 3 started in 2008 - 12 years ago, and is still not “done” in any meaningful sense. If I think back to 12 years after the intel OSX transition - 2018 - I can’t think of a single outstanding issue, whereas I bash into python 2 vs 3 literally every time I touch it (and therefore mostly choose not to).