Comment by margalabargala
17 days ago
8 years is only "not that long" because we have gotten better at compatibility.
How many similar programs written in 1999 compiled without issue in 2007? The dependency and tooling environment is as robust as it's ever been.
> because we have gotten better at compatibility.
Have we though? I feel the opposite it true. These days developers expect users of their modules and frameworks will be regularly updating those dependencies and doing so dynamically from the web.
While this is true for active code bases. You can quickly find stable but unmaintained code will eventually rot as its dependencies deprecate.
There aren't many languages out there where their wider ecosystem thinks about API-stability in terms of years.