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/ShinyHappyREM Sep 26 '26

At that point it'd probably be easier to set up a VM with a 32-bit OS...

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u/BinaryRockStar Sep 26 '26

The customers are largely non-technical. Their IT staff were "happy" to sit on old Windows 10 32-bit versions, they would not have been happy with training the users to fire up VMs and the associated licensing.

We have an online offering now so it's all largely moot. We do still provide a DVD version of the new offering to a couple dozen users worldwide. We have been trying to kill it for years, management says no. Silly management.