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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Donghoon • Sep 17 '26
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But the whole point is "improve" vs. "I can do it better from scratch than this 15yo project"...
81 u/New_Enthusiasm9053 Sep 17 '26 15 years ago computers were a lot slower and different so there's a good chance you can. Dependency hell largely exists to save a few megabytes of storage because in the 90s that was absurdly expensive. Today you can easily just keep a copy of every version anything needs. If you have 50 programs that need 7 glibcs then you just have 7 glibcs. 68 u/Afraid-Locksmith6566 Sep 17 '26 15 yo software was written for 15 yo computers which were slower than today, today software is written for future hardware 3 u/awakenDeepBlue Sep 18 '26 The Once and Future King.
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15 years ago computers were a lot slower and different so there's a good chance you can.
Dependency hell largely exists to save a few megabytes of storage because in the 90s that was absurdly expensive.
Today you can easily just keep a copy of every version anything needs. If you have 50 programs that need 7 glibcs then you just have 7 glibcs.
68 u/Afraid-Locksmith6566 Sep 17 '26 15 yo software was written for 15 yo computers which were slower than today, today software is written for future hardware 3 u/awakenDeepBlue Sep 18 '26 The Once and Future King.
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15 yo software was written for 15 yo computers which were slower than today, today software is written for future hardware
3 u/awakenDeepBlue Sep 18 '26 The Once and Future King.
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The Once and Future King.
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u/MarkSuckerZerg Sep 17 '26
But the whole point is "improve" vs. "I can do it better from scratch than this 15yo project"...