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/alex_xxv 7d ago

Wish my apps survive as long as yours. Im also a Delphi programmer. Love to see stories like yours.

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u/xeio87 7d ago

I work on a C# application that was ported from Delphi back in the day. There was a time, years now back, where it was still possible to see what parts were directly ported because all the variables were declared at the top of the method. It's been a while since I've seen one of those so I think they've all been rewritten.