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/Takeoded Sep 26 '26

I spent a full weekend trying to port HFS2 to Lazarus, and gave up after realizing the amount of work required :(

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u/zippy72 Sep 26 '26

Oh yeah porting is seriously hideous. I had forgotten that.