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> Amount of money I have seen lost because people were using different versions of excel sheets that were not up to date is staggering. Similar opportunity los

> Amount of money I have seen lost because people were using different versions of excel sheets that were not up to date is staggering. Similar opportunity losses can be found through not keeping npm libraries up-to-date or through not doing full refactoring when there is a mainline change in a framework’s coding styles. .NET, React, and Angular all suffer from that problem, to this day, in regular enterprise, and I’m sure Java does too.

chii 5y ago
People on different excel versions causing business errors is going to have an order of magnitude higher problem than libraries not being up to date. At least an old version of react will still work - and if it had an error, that error was acceptable at the time of shipping. Plus the developer is in charge of updating libraries, presumably with some forethought. A user updating their excel at their whim is uncontrollable and irreversible.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago
  > People on different excel versions causing business errors is going to have an order of magnitude higher problem than libraries not being up to date. Do you have a link to software engineering research that would corroborate that opinion?