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>Standalone software keeps working more or less forever regardless of the company. That may be true for Windows, but it isn't true for Mac (unless you never up
by hermitcrab 4y ago
>Standalone software keeps working more or less forever regardless of the company.
That may be true for Windows, but it isn't true for Mac (unless you never upgrade your computer).
I have been writing and supporting the same piece of commercial software since 2005 on Windws and Mac. v1 of my software probably still works on Windows 11. Not a chance on Mac (it has gone PowerPc -> Intel -> Arm in that time!).
- urthor 4y agoThis is one of the joys of command line tools. They almost never stop working on you, and are far easier to maintain cross platform. Using the same thing on Mac at work and Linux at home is a joy. Increasingly, I actively try to use the command line approach to all my software. Not because it's better (often it... isn't. FFmpeg is actually remarkably annoying for example), but it's bloody reliable.
- pjmlp 4y agoThis is one of the joys of command line tools using fossilized UNIX APIs, that is.