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.
@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.
