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>Similarly, software should automatically be open-source after 30 years. I'm not sure how well this might work. It's currently easier for me to resurrect an o
by tyingq 4y ago
>Similarly, software should automatically be open-source after 30 years.
I'm not sure how well this might work. It's currently easier for me to resurrect an old Z80 ASM program than to get a node.js V6 program working. Our complicated dependency chains will make future-retro hard.
- kitsunesoba 4y agoI had a similar experience trying to resurrect an old RoR project from the early 2010s. Maybe technically possible, but not the least bit practical… it’d be better to just start from scratch. Meanwhile, I was able to get an early 2000s mac Cocoa project building and running again in just a few hours, with the bulk of the work going into fixing deprecations. The main difference between the two was the number of third party dependencies… the Cocoa app had almost none while the RoR project had several tens when counting sub-dependencies.