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I write a project using primarily a foss stack which has a 20+ year history of being committed to backwards compatibility, and I couldn't be happier. Utilizing
by forgotmypw17 3y ago
I write a project using primarily a foss stack which has a 20+ year history of being committed to backwards compatibility, and I couldn't be happier.
Utilizing the Lindy Effect to my benefit, I've been able to almost entirely avoid the typical framework frustrations, such as breaking changes and abandoned dependencies.
Instead, I've been able to focus on features, figure out a good code style, and support nearly all mainstream or once-mainstream browsers. On the back-end, I'm working on the Windows install process, but on *nix it's fairly uniform across different flavors and lineages.
For those curious, it is Perl, text files, PGP, HTML, CSS, low-sugar JS, and a little bit of sh, Python and PHP for server glue. Now probably to include batch files...