Reading @Jonathan_Blow's comment today about how younger programmers have become accustomed to continual software decay, I was reminded of this thread I wrote a few years ago:
Reading @Jonathan_Blow's comment today about how younger programmers have become accustomed to continual software decay, I was reminded of this thread I wrote a few years ago:
@cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow Question about this. In Odin's case they take a direct copy into their codebase, and for Rust we have Cargo where no dependencies versions are deleted. While it's true dependencies update, isn't it also true we can choose to not update?
Anyone can choose not to update anything - just buy a computer, install what you're going to use, then unplug it from the internet :) The question is what happens when you would like to update things, to get new features or security fixes, etc.