Re:Writing an app is like coding for LaserDisc
by Macha on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:12AM
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Honestly I think Perl CGI scripts stand a better than most chance of still being executable 25 years later. Maybe just behind win32 apps. Whether you'd want to with the high rate of command/sql/html injection vulnerabilities in those days is another question.
Re:Writing an app is like coding for LaserDisc
by 1shooner on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:06AM
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> How confident are we that the backend code from 1995 will still run?
This seems like it would apply equally to native and web.
Re:Writing an app is like coding for LaserDisc
by KerrAvon on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:37AM
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You can run pretty much any native app from 1995 for any platform in emulation. Network requirements were uncommon outside of networking-specific apps.
You can render a web page from 1995 but you can’t run any server-side logic if you don’t have a copy of the server.
If they're purely client-side, sure, but there's a good chance that anything we could reasonably call a web application, also has a backend component on a server. How confident are we that the backend code from 1995 will still run?
1995 is when Microsoft Frontpage launched. PHP was a year old. I'd be surprised if anything written in those sorts of environments still functions without being run on a 1995 version of Windows/Linux on 1995 era hardware.
Software is a process, it always has been, it always will be.