> I feel that quite a bit of software written these days is designed to have a short shelf life. I wonder how many of the "Show HN" posts will work, or even be

> I feel that quite a bit of software written these days is designed to have a short shelf life. I wonder how many of the "Show HN" posts will work, or even be useful, in five years? How much will be maintainable? Yep, all the python2 code from 5 years ago doesn't work anymore... It's sad how getting python2 to work on newish distros is becoming a great pain in the ass.