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Except it's really the OS doing cartwheels to keep them going.
by jdc 6y ago
Except it's really the OS doing cartwheels to keep them going.
- pdimitar 6y agoAt one point I stopped caring how they do it. I just want them to do it. We can't all be everywhere at the stack at the same time. We have work to do.
- kazinator 6y agoOr maybe it's the OS refraining from doing cartwheels that keeps them going.
- jdc 6y agoYou're right in that a stable ABI goes a long way to keep old binaries working! My point is about this sort of thing: > [...] anybody who has read the Old New Thing blog (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/) or Raymond Chen's chapter on Windows backwards compatibility (http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321440303/samplechapter/Chen_bonus_ch01.pdf http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321440303/samplech..., PDF) will be both impressed and horrified at the lengths the Windows team went to in order to avoid breaking programs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13450629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13450629