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I have many systems that have been running for 10 years with few or indeed no changes, the same deb applies now on Ubuntu 2004 as it did on 804 I don’t use the
by midasuni 5y ago
I have many systems that have been running for 10 years with few or indeed no changes, the same deb applies now on Ubuntu 2004 as it did on 804
I don’t use the latest fancy technology and frameworks that work today but have breaking changes every few minutes. I care about the output of the code, not the feelings of the person writing it. LAMP worked 20 years ago, and there’s been little update. Use Perl instead and there’s been even less. I’d be surprised if rhey didn’t work in 10 years. Meanwhile I accidentally upgraded some version of nodejs and it broke some “fancy” code that somebody had written. We ended up rewriting the entire code in php rather than try to unpick the mess that had been left.
- xupybd 5y agoYou're not wrong about Perl. I hate working with it but if you're looking for longevity it's near the top of the list for good choices. There are some things that run you into trouble. When SSL versions change you might have to update that part of your stack. When things like the log4j vulnerability hit you have to update that sort of thing. If you are working with external systems sometimes they change interfaces and you're forced to update. If you're working with government compliance you no doubt have to change every 3 years for no good reason.
- midasuni 5y agoI don’t use cpan modules directly, just OS bundled modules. Apt dist upgrade handles the required security issues (and besides these are internal apps, the threat surface is much reduced as you have to be an authenticated user/machine to access it in the first place)