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Perhaps the issue is that it is far cheaper and easier to start from scratch and create a small app these days. As we innovate exponentially faster and have be
by ricksharp 6y ago
Perhaps the issue is that it is far cheaper and easier to start from scratch and create a small app these days.
As we innovate exponentially faster and have better tools and languages, it is far easier to tear the building down and start over.
Also, I don’t know of a single app I use regularly that is older than a few years.
- gonzo41 6y agoYour web browser is all i can think of.
- qes 6y ago> I don’t know of a single app I use regularly that is older than a few years. What did you use to visit this website? Check your email? Open a spreadsheet last? If your a software developer, what do you edit code in? Your operating system? Hard to believe you're using apps less than a few years old for any of those much less all of them - or even those that are by name older but have been through a Big Rewrite in the past few years.
- iso1210 6y agoFirefox - July 2020 Mutt - July 2020 Gnumeric - August 2020 Vim - December 2019 OS - Ubuntu, April 2020 They might not have had big rewrites, but they are still under active development (I actually run slightly older versions, but nothing older than 5 years) The code I use which isn't under active development is stuff I wrote years ago, but showing its age -- one uses flash to deliver video for example. Last update was a specific view for a blackberry, which gives an indication on the age. That view didn't support video as we didn't have 3G in the fleet.