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Backwards compatibility isn't their biggest problem to begin with, so that wouldn't be worth it. In effect they already did break it: the new Windows APIs (WinR
by mike_hearn 2y ago
Backwards compatibility isn't their biggest problem to begin with, so that wouldn't be worth it. In effect they already did break it: the new Windows APIs (WinRT/UWP) are very different to Win32 but now people target cross platform runtimes like the browser, JVM, Flutter, etc. So it doesn't really matter that they broke backwards compatibility. The new tech isn't competitive.