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Re:From where I left by PeterZaitsev on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @03:02PM (#42380825)
Note though, the code is not Music, it rots quickly without maintenance. The "social contract" of contributing the code is what it will be maintained by collective community, otherwise many companies would just keep it as private forks.

It is wonderful thing though, with Open Source, people can band together and "pull Valkey" to create well maintained fork based on all those past contributions

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Re:From where I left by jart on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @03:34PM (#42381129)
That may be true of node.js codebases, but last time I checked Redis was written in C and only depends on ISO and POSIX standardized stuff. I doubt there's been any leftpads that have broken the old versions by now.
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Re:From where I left by PeterZaitsev on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @04:16PM (#42381605)
It is not just compatibility, there are bugs, but most important security issues which are constantly being discovered.
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Re:From where I left by samatman on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @07:35PM (#42383375)
Which makes rot a good metaphor actually. The DNA of a tree which becomes infected with a new mutation of a fungus didn't change, the fungus did.

Code in which a vulnerability is discovered is in the same position. It's developed a susceptibility to a new force malevolent to its purpose. It doesn't have to change to rot, it suffices for the world to change around it.

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