5 stories tagged backward-compatibility, newest first.
168 points by khalidkhair | 108 comments
Windows Latest article explaining how Windows 11 still includes the EmulateHeap compatibility shim that gives old apps Windows 95's heap memory manager.
339 points by gnyeki | 154 comments
Blog post arguing SQLite has bad defaults, such as ignoring foreign key constraints, and should adopt Rust-style editions to fix them without breaking compatibility.
842 points by antirez | 553 comments
Blog post by antirez arguing that software is being degraded by complexity, bloated dependency chains, complex build systems, broken backward compatibility, and needless rewrites.
405 points by sohkamyung | 161 comments
A Mastodon post by an author on eldritch.cafe noting that LibreOffice opens old Microsoft Word files better than Word itself does.
364 points by philosopher1234 | 264 comments
A Go Blog post by Russ Cox explaining the compatibility features added in Go 1.21 and why there will be no breaking Go 2.