The tragedy of running an old Node project

> time to run it after not touching it for 4 years

> Two hours of my life gone...

Two hours of work after 4 years sounds ... perfectly acceptable?

And it would have run perfectly right away if the node version was specified, so a good learning, too

This feels like making a mountain out of a mole hill

Well, the "solution" ended up as "I gave up and just installed an old Node version and called it a day". So those 2 hours weren't even enough.

I've been using Jekyll/Ruby since 2014 for my website, with a few custom plugins I wrote myself. And I've never really needed to do anything like this. It "just works".

My Go and C programs are the same: "just works". I have some that are close to a decade old.

I dug out a small Rust project from 2016 and with edition = 2018 I got it running again in under 30 minutes, I was kinda surprised. 8 years is ancient in terms of Rust. I have had more problems with certain other crates. But yeah, C/C++ usually don't really compare. 5 years is nothing, it should just work. For Go the big breaking moment was modules. All my pre - 2016?ish code would need some work.