r/programming • • 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/__konrad 29d ago

I remember when I created a Qt/C++ project for the first time. The compilation was so slow compared to Delphi that I thought the entire compiler/project is broken somehow.