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You'll have to upgrade the compiler eventually though, right? I don't know what that process would look like, but generally the longer you wait the more pain yo
by spicybright 5y ago
You'll have to upgrade the compiler eventually though, right? I don't know what that process would look like, but generally the longer you wait the more pain you'll face later.
- lazide 5y agoNope, it’s open source and some companies will keep it around until they fold in however many years (100?) If it works, why spent money ‘fixing’ it after all.
- spicybright 5y agoCompiler tech and hardware will improve drastically in the next 100 years. Linux can either evolve with it, or be put in a museum while something else takes it's place. Likely losing a lot of the development that's been done in the past 30 years. It would be like running OS/8 (for the PDP-8, popular in 1965) on a modern machine. No time sharing for processes, no network stack, only a TTY for I/O... what would you even do with it if you could compile it?
- lazide 5y agoWe’re clearly talking about very different things. If someone made a product which uses it, and people keep buying it, most companies aren’t going to bother with any of those things if they don’t need it. That is of course completely different from what Linux is doing (as in outside of that context). It may be at version 510, but that doesn’t mean someone won’t be running version 1.0 somewhere. And that’s fine.