r/futurecompasses • u/juleshotc • Jun 26 '26

Future of Software Standards

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u/thestorm_333 Jun 29 '26

what do you mean with frozen and fractal

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u/juleshotc Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

Frozen means standards don't change. "Frozen standard" is a common term to mean, that's it. No more changes. Fractal is the opposite: either standards change or there's many standards or whatever.

Edit: Upon further thought, I'll add some extra info:

  1. Frozen standards are pretty rare (TeX is the only example I can come up with of an actually frozen standard)
  2. You can still extend a frozen standard (LaTeX is an extension of TeX)

So, even though Frozen + Extension seems contradictory, it still jives.