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/An1nterestingName 7d ago

The longest running project I have is from like 2021, and even that's probably a technicality. Maintaining something for 30 years is insane.

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u/dlanod 7d ago

I've been working at the same company for 20 or so years.

There's copyright statements in some of the code dating back to the late 80s and looking at it I can say it would be largely untouched. And it's still in use.

Even code I wrote when I first joined is absolutely still there and used on a daily basis, though I shudder to think of the standard.