If 8 years is "super old" in terms of software, what is Windows? Or Emacs? Or old Fortran software from the 50s in the Voyager software?

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yipinwong 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Define "super old" or just "old".

It's relative measurement. When you are 9th grader, even a freshman college student feels way older.

But as you are in your 30s, you feel less of difference.

Same thing here, How do you define Windows and Emacs being "old"? For those who's been using it for decades, not as old as Voyager software. For those who lived through those times, Windows and Emacs feels younger.

See where I am going with it?

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If you have a nephew or a kid, they will say you are "old". But your parents will consider you "young" for the rest of their lives.

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1dom 4 hours ago | parent [-]

In the context of software, I think "how old is old" depends on how web based the software has been over its lifetime.

I think 8 years is old for software that has heavily Web based like Deno. But Windows and Emacs have had portions of their lifetime without the Web in a meaningful way, so 8 years would be young.

	▲	yipinwong 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		ty. I like this over others as it uses the "web" as the basis for relativity.

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tosti an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Ancient