Comment by skeeter2020
3 months ago
Car models get maybe refreshed annually, bigger changes a couple of times a decade, if that. Vehicle fleets are often aging out with these timelines.
So if we either stretch the fleet management analogy to 50 years, or software applications only lasted 3-5 years maybe it IS fair to say the both have either a lot (former) or very little (later) inconsistnency?
> Car models get maybe refreshed annually, bigger changes a couple of times a decade, if that.
.NET gets refreshed annually. The last bigger change was nearly a decade ago. So not all that different.
But I don't think that the analogy stretches, really. e.g. where I am all .NET apps are .NET 8 LTS or 9, and will be all be .NET 10 LTS by middle of 2026. You can upgrade an app to a new model year much more easily than a vehicle. The "software application, on a SDK major version" only lasts 1-2 years.