corbin to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 6 months agoSteam is a ticking time bombwww.spacebar.newsexternal-linkmessage-square166fedilinkarrow-up1117arrow-down13cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mlgames@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.world
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minus-squareAatube@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoIt takes non-trivial effort to change the defaults of an IDE/compiler to also support EOL OSes, and a ton more effort if supporting an older version means you have to write a lot of different code for it due to not supporting new APIs.
It takes non-trivial effort to change the defaults of an IDE/compiler to also support EOL OSes, and a ton more effort if supporting an older version means you have to write a lot of different code for it due to not supporting new APIs.