There is this weird notion among software developers that software goes bad just like milk does.
It literally works and will always work exactly the same way (including all good and bad things about it) as the day it was created. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@thomasfuchs Except when the OS updates and breaks everything every few years. 😭
Google and Apple are singlehandedly keeping developers employed by forcing companies to change everything to keep up with breaking changes / app store requirements.
Kinda why I like shitty web apps with little JS in them.
@rayckeith @thomasfuchs Big mood. Had a similar experience on Android recently. Like there's no good reason it should be so unstable.
Also why I like Linux. Don't gotta update nothing so long as it's running. >:P
@mauve @rayckeith @thomasfuchs granted, you can rightfully blame the "Platform Owners" for that!
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/115069432608300319
@mauve @thomasfuchs Sure, but that’s only because someone is out there changing the OS.
If they stopped, it would indeed continue to work as-is.
@philip @thomasfuchs I agree wholeheartedly! I'm a major proponent of backwards compatibility and I wish businesses used more pressure to force all these big tech companies to have indefinite backwards compat instead of breaking things to reinvent the wheel yet again.
@mauve @thomasfuchs
One of my favorite apps on iOS wasn't updated over several years and every year the app seemed to be more "buggy", but what was changing was the underlying OS library, not the app.
Seems to me the OS library was buggy because they were not maintaining backwards compatibility.