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> But I will say this, I've long been thinking that there should at least be a programming language and OS that does its best to not change. Believe it or not
by brian_cloutier 5y ago
> But I will say this, I've long been thinking that there should at least be a programming language and OS that does its best to not change.
Believe it or not this is a core design goal of the Urbit ecosystem. The core bytecode should be simple (and stable) enough that some future archaeologist can implement an interpreter in a weekend and run programs. They take it so far that their version numbers run _backwards_, with the idea that once they reach version 0 nothing will ever change again: https://urbit.org/blog/toward-a-frozen-operating-system https://urbit.org/blog/toward-a-frozen-operating-system