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If your energy levels drop, or you lose interest, ports will become harder. When you write code that has a short life span none of this matters. But when your
by medo-bear 3y ago
If your energy levels drop, or you lose interest, ports will become harder.
When you write code that has a short life span none of this matters. But when your software has a several year or decade life expectancy it will matter.
Also economics plays a role. If we have a real economic downturn in IT bit rot will become a huge problem for many small businesses.
- brnt 3y agoIf any effort is too much, you're basically stuck on a very select set of dead-ish languages or dialects thereof. But I'm not sure that's a more viable approach then using a language that is still pretty great about backwards compatibility.