Re:The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
by johannes1234321 on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @03:21PM
(#17128655)
It tells is, that the world changes and we evolve on different dimensions.
For one there are features added and need by users change.
Additionally paradigm usage changes over time. Sometimes doing more OOP is modern, nowadays people want to be more functional.
Thirdly deployment changes ("Microservices" etc.)
Maintaining an old code base is always work and if you don't have a dedicated team doing refactoring continously you have a hard time to keep it up2date.
... Not to mention that all this is probably using third party modules which may change ... or not be updated.
For one there are features added and need by users change.
Additionally paradigm usage changes over time. Sometimes doing more OOP is modern, nowadays people want to be more functional.
Thirdly deployment changes ("Microservices" etc.)
Maintaining an old code base is always work and if you don't have a dedicated team doing refactoring continously you have a hard time to keep it up2date.
... Not to mention that all this is probably using third party modules which may change ... or not be updated.