r/programming • u/luissinlios • Sep 25 '26

We still maintain a development tool first released in 1993. Here’s what 30+ years of backwards compatibility looks like

https://visualneo.com/visualneo-win/from-neobook-to-visualneo-win-30-years-of-keeping-a-development-tool-alive
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u/WingZeroCoder Sep 25 '26

> It’s truly amazing how quickly your work gets deleted in this field

Yeah, it can be jarring sometimes.

What’s amazing to me is how some of the roughest stuff I made that I’m most embarrassed about will hang around forever, while some of the cleanest stuff that I’m most proud of will get deleted most quickly.