On the flip side, this is what makes Windows generally very good at backwards compatibility.
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Eiri@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My god, the amount of legacy crap in Windows.
They ought to just start over at some point.
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Eiri@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, that makes sense. If it’s starting to bite them in the butt, though, maybe they should start relegating that stuff to emulation, if they can write a good enough emulator.
I don’t know when. Maybe it’s already gone by, maybe it’s in the future. But there’s probably a point in time when all of that backward compatibility stops being worth it.
smeenz@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
Isn’t that what wine is ?
Eiri@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t understand
smeenz@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
Wine (wine is not (an) emulator) is a reimplementation of the windows api set. It’s literally starting windows again from scratch.
Eiri@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh I see. Well if it has exactly the same API, if that API also has weird legacy stuff built in that hinder developers, then maybe not, but overall that does sound very similar, yes!
And009@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Is that a real concern?
Eiri@lemmy.world 5 months ago
While I haven’t diven into their codebase, that kind of thing tends to severely limit what developers can do to improve the product, slow them down, etc.
Be it new features, deeper UX improvements, performance optimizations… Basically anything you want to do with your progress, generally speaking, it’s going to get harder the more legacy stuff you need to deal with.
bfg9k@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We need Windows NNT - New New Technology
fnrir@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How about Windows NEW ALL (in reference to Tantacrul)?
PhAzE@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
New all, everybody!