I'm not talking about old, forgotten code. I'm saying that, every time, there is a "${old-existing-thing} in ${current-language-of-the-day}", people upvote it,

I'm not talking about old, forgotten code. I'm saying that, every time, there is a "${old-existing-thing} in ${current-language-of-the-day}", people upvote it, start it on github, and continue using the old one, written in c/c++. A few months will go buy, and people will continue using mgba/visualboy/vbam or whatever was popular before.