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I’m trying and failing to think of another free software product I honestly expect to still work on my current data past 2050. And this isn’t good enough?
by ectospheno 1y ago
I’m trying and failing to think of another free software product I honestly expect to still work on my current data past 2050. And this isn’t good enough?
- azemetre 1y agoIt's good, but this also assume that the people taking care of this product in the future (which may not even born right now) will hold the same attitudes. How do we plan to make sure the lessons we've learned during development now will still be taught 300 years from now? I'm not putting the onus on sqlite to solve this but they are also the only organization I know of that is taking the idea seriously. Just more thinking in the open and seeing what other people are trying to solve similar problems (ensure teachings continue past their lives) outside the context of universities.
- SoftTalker 1y agoThinking like this is how we ended up with a panic about Y2K. Programmers in the 1970s and 80s could not conceive that their code would still be running in 2000.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoThe computing industry was in a huge amount of flux in the 1970s. How many bits are in a byte? Not a settled question. Code was being rewritten for new platforms all the time. Imagining that some design decisions would last for decades probably seemed laughable.