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Re:Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability by lioeters on Saturday February 10, 2024 @01:08AM (#39324010)
For sure, I imagine "software archaeology" will become a field of its own in the future. It reminds me of GitHub's Arctic Code Vault project, a snapshot of all public repositories as of 2020-02-02, meant to last for at least a thousand years.

https://github.blog/2022-09-20-if-you-dont-make-it-beautiful...

I wonder what future humans will make of it, digging through such a massive amount of good, bad, and terrible code. Much of it probably won't run without serious effort.

Re:Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability by otabdeveloper4 on Saturday February 10, 2024 @02:59AM (#39324449)
I can't even run a node.js project that was written two years ago.
Re:Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability by Khaine on Saturday February 10, 2024 @04:48AM (#39324926)
That's probably for the best