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A comment on Ask HN: Examples of desktop software with 20+ years of longevity?.

Re:Ask HN: Examples of desktop software with 20+ years of lo... by 0atman on Thursday May 25, 2023 @09:57AM (#36070782)
This is very normal in the open source world: Half of the desktop software included in a modern Linux distro I was using in the late 90s!

From memory: VLC, GIMP, Blender, Audacity, Firefox, Gedit, OpenOffice, XBMC (now Kodi), FileZilla - the list is HUGE

Find your favourites here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_s...

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Re:Ask HN: Examples of desktop software with 20+ years of lo... by usr1106 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @10:17AM (#36071035)
Emacs is from the 80s. (vi probably older, but it might be considered more different from a modern vim.)
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Re:Ask HN: Examples of desktop software with 20+ years of lo... by hdjjhhvvhga on Thursday May 25, 2023 @11:52AM (#36072332)
From the wiki:

"The first operational EMACS system existed in late 1976."[0]

[0] http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5736/AIM-519A....

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Re:Ask HN: Examples of desktop software with 20+ years of lo... by cylinder714 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:56PM (#36078017)
Wikipedia says that vi was first released in 1976.
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Re:Ask HN: Examples of desktop software with 20+ years of lo... by oniony on Friday May 26, 2023 @05:23AM (#36081900)
Vim is not Vi. It's a project that initially emulated its behaviour and then extended it. So I would say that Vim is from 1991.
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Re:Ask HN: Examples of desktop software with 20+ years of lo... by ksherlock on Sunday May 28, 2023 @11:50AM (#36105115)
Vim was a fork of the Amiga port of Stevie which was first released in 1987.
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Re:Ask HN: Examples of desktop software with 20+ years of lo... by melx on Thursday May 25, 2023 @04:39PM (#36075895)
FYI: VLC was released in Feb 2001
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