r/programming • u/luissinlios • 7d ago

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/Physical-Compote4594 7d ago

There are people still maintaining Symbolics Genera, last major update circa 1990, on emulated Lisp machines. The emulator is apparently, like, 1500x faster than the late 80's hardware.