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222 points richbowen | 1 comments | 30 Mar 25 00:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.346s | source
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ghaff ◴[30 Mar 25 01:08 UTC] No.43520251[source]▶
Unless it's (maybe) mainfraame software, your software is going to break with an OS update. O you can maybe keep it working for a while in a VM, but the idea that you'll keep a software binary working forever is, for practical purposes, mostly silly.
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1. mixermachine ◴[30 Mar 25 01:17 UTC] No.43520319[source]▶
Windows and Android are OK to pretty good when it comes to backward compatibility.

MacOS Software sadly does break sometimes.