Re:Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code stil...
by amelius on Monday August 24, 2020 @06:51PM
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You can blame all the scientists, but shouldn't we blame the CS folks for not coming up with suitable languages and software engineering methods that will prevent software from rotting in the first place?
Why isn't there a common language that all other languages compile to, and that will be supported on all possible platforms, for the rest of time?
(Perhaps WASM could be such a language, but the point is that this would be just coincidental and not a planned effort to conservate software)
And why aren't package managers structured such that packages will live forever (e.g. in IPFS) regardless of whether the package management system is online? Why is Github still a single point of failure in many cases?
Why isn't there a common language that all other languages compile to, and that will be supported on all possible platforms, for the rest of time?
(Perhaps WASM could be such a language, but the point is that this would be just coincidental and not a planned effort to conservate software)
And why aren't package managers structured such that packages will live forever (e.g. in IPFS) regardless of whether the package management system is online? Why is Github still a single point of failure in many cases?