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The long tail of backwards compatibility, while impressive and amazing, is holding back windows, x86, and others. As much as I would hate them breaking compati
by Atotalnoob 3y ago
The long tail of backwards compatibility, while impressive and amazing, is holding back windows, x86, and others.
As much as I would hate them breaking compatibility, eventually it has to give.
Imagine 50 years from now, never being able to improve things due to backwards compatibility…
- jdsully 3y agoHaving been a victim of win RT and other "modern" windows APIs the simple truth is the old stuff actually works and the new stuff is crap and gets deprecated after nobody adopts it.