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They are "cheating" slightly though, because they get to run on a "unchanging" environment, i.e. the hardware is fixed and they generally don't have to suddenly

• nebula8804 3y ago
  I hear ya, and it goes back to how we want to define everything. Technically the software itself does not need maintenance. The "why" is because of unchanging hardware. Maybe more software should be developed for unchanging hardware. The problem is that the real world does not map well onto this paradigm. ....maybe AI will solve this problem for us one day. :P
  • eternityforest 3y ago
    Except the real world maps just fine... At any point we could all just just agree to make an unchanging ExtremeLTS target if we really wanted. Just like, freeze a modern Linux and only do nonbreaking changes to any of the parts. Unfortunately nobody seems to have done that for real practical use. There's UXN, which is cool, but I wouldn't want to use anything that minimal, especially not with the focus on ASM instead of a high level language. We could also just decide to make a compiler to make N64 dev easier and just keep making most of our stuff for that, retro console games will probably always be playable for as long as civilization continues, but that would not exactly be practical. But windows kinda already does the whole unchanging target thing, or did. Their backwards compatibility is so much better than Linux, where nothing works in 2 years because of all the dynamic linking.