And now they are being released 100x faster by AI
Survivorship bias. We only see the “good old programs” because the bad ones didn’t make it until now.
Yes
And while not exactly applicable for the computer example but generally everytime this example is brought up
ROMANS DID NOT HAVE 40 FUCKING TON TRUCKS
Much less so 100s per hour
Roman infrastructure was/is impressive no doubt
But not that impressive
Yeah, the damage curve is exponential by axle weight.
Not quite, but fourth power may as well be.
Nah. The dumpster fire known as gcc still survived until this day.
There’s a reason why almost every new optimization/language starts with llvm.
If you’re talking about applications that can be made to act how their namesake predecessors did 30 years ago, sure. The Unix mindset is all about that.
But don’t be fooled into thinking that anything on a modern Unix-like system hasn’t been modified, patched or rewritten from scratch at some point in the last 30 years. More than once. Even /bin/false has a changelog.
#define AUTHORS proper_name (“Jim Meyering”)
The true author, so to speak.
you mispelled super interesting
COBOL system written 50 years ago…JS package at release.
*30 days
What are you guys doing to your JS packages for them to last so long?
No using in production, I guess
Survivorship bias
yeah, I bet there was a bunch of crap written 30y ago too, the difference was no npm or github
Not quite 30 yet but maven was released 2004 and still going strong.
Thanks. Now i feel old :(
30 months!??!? Are you trying to get hacked?
I’m an old-school JavaScript developer, that’s why I use Angular!
Jquery user here…
that’s a blast from the past I want to forget.
Who spilled the 55 gallon drum of sulfuric acid out front, and “forgot” to clean it up?
I suppose there was a big fire. Sulfuric acid would have eaten the steel reinforcement, leaving the asphalt alone, more or less.
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