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222 points richbowen | 3 comments | 30 Mar 25 00:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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. nikau ◴[30 Mar 25 01:18 UTC] No.43520324[source]▶
It's called open source - I'm confident in 30 years time there will still be a vim port to whatever OS is in vogue.
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2. ghaff ◴[30 Mar 25 01:30 UTC] No.43520392[source]▶
Port is the operative word there.

Proprietary binaries may work but there's no guarantee depending upon how the software was written.

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3. nikau ◴[30 Mar 25 02:21 UTC] No.43520673[source]▶
End of the day I don't care if it's same binary or not, i just want my apps and tooling to work the way they have always worked.