“Reddit is literally rewriting all of its code, some of which is more than a decade old.” In software, decade-old means fairly well debugged
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In software, decade old means unmaintained, original developer long gone, full of risk.
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In software, decade old means the source won't even compile.
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In software, decade old means you are relying on outdated, unmaintained libraries, compilers, operating systems.
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Replying to @jwildeboer @thegrugq
saying decade old software is bad because it relies on outdated software is begging the question
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My statements are specific replies to your post on Reddit and it's codebase. For web they definitely stand. Other areas? Whataboutism ;-)
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Replying to @jwildeboer @thegrugq
not at all. For Pinboard, I run 8-year-old software on regularly patched OS and libraries. We have the technology
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Tech we have. Sustainability and long term support is the problem. I work at Red Hat. It's part of our value proposition :-)
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I thought your value proposition was “give away the bugs, sell support”? No wonder we see this differently
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Our value prop is a lot. Long term stable APIs/ABIs (10 years for RHEL) one of them.
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