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Re:.NET 10 by skeeter2020 on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @09:32AM (#45900681)
Car models get maybe refreshed annually, bigger changes a couple of times a decade, if that. Vehicle fleets are often aging out with these timelines.

So if we either stretch the fleet management analogy to 50 years, or software applications only lasted 3-5 years maybe it IS fair to say the both have either a lot (former) or very little (later) inconsistnency?

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Re:.NET 10 by SideburnsOfDoom on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @09:48AM (#45900915)
> Car models get maybe refreshed annually, bigger changes a couple of times a decade, if that.

.NET gets refreshed annually. The last bigger change was nearly a decade ago. So not all that different.

But I don't think that the analogy stretches, really. e.g. where I am all .NET apps are .NET 8 LTS or 9, and will be all be .NET 10 LTS by middle of 2026. You can upgrade an app to a new model year much more easily than a vehicle. The "software application, on a SDK major version" only lasts 1-2 years.

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