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backwards compatibility is a burden, not a feature.


<Get of my lawn rant>

Tell that to the millions of companies that don't have the money/means to update their os/stack every year and still rely on software written in the 90s

</Get of my lawn rant>


Yes, that's exactly what I mean. It's a burden which we grudgingly accept, but it's certainly not a feature. Nobody loves the dentist either, but we need to go occasionally




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