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I completely disagree. There's always something that can be improved in software. But usually, it gets to a state of "good enough" so people move on to someth

I completely disagree. There's always something that can be improved in software. But usually, it gets to a state of "good enough" so people move on to something more important and just leave it. Sometimes, they have to come back to it, perhaps after a long time even, for a bug fix, or to add a new feature, but it may go for very long periods with no updates at all. Of course, this is all a matter of perspective and semantics. I suppose if something becomes obsolete enough that no one's interested in developing it further, it could be considered "finished". But even here, it seems like people still have some interest in very old software sometimes, resurrecting it to run on emulators perhaps, and sometimes even making changes (if they can get the source code) to improve its operation on newer systems.

latexr 2y ago
> resurrecting it to run on emulators perhaps That has nothing to do with the software’s finished state. An NES game which runs bug free and without performance issues on the NES doesn’t stop being complete because someone else decides to run it in a different environment decades later. > There's always something that can be improved in software. No, there’s not always something which can be improved. There’s always something that can be fiddled with, which is not at all the same thing. By your logic, no painting is ever finished, nor is any novel, nor any meal, nor any internet comment, nor literary anything. Things are finished when the author decides they completely fulfil their need, it’s not your opinion as an outsider that matters.