Comment by choeger
25 days ago
So rewriting gets cheaper and cheaper. New features fall more or less into the same category. Refinement doesn't.
The question is: Will we live in the world of breathless re-implementation, new features every week, rebranding every quarter or will we eventually discover the value of stability, software that does its thing more or less optimally for decades?
Recent examples of things like curl or Firefox are interesting in that regard. Will we end up with a nearly perfect HTTP user agent and stick with it for decades?
Preferring "boring software" over the shiny new thing is common wisdom.
Sounds like we prefer stability for stuff we use but not for stuff we sell.