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by enntwo 5892 days ago
It is mindsets like his that destroy and stagnate langauges, and fill them with bloat to support outdated legacy code.

I don't see why anyone should be truly content with a platform or environment that refuses to evolve, progress will obviously cause breaking changes, but in the far majority of cases, the resulting fix will improve the existing application.

If someone is too lazy to take the chance to improve an application of their own, then they truly don't care about it in the first place, but then again if they are statisfied with the stagnation of their entire platofrm and environment, it makes sense that they would be statisfied with the stagnation of their own programs as well.

Software evolves, poor programmers complain and resist, good programmers go with the flow, but great programmers embrace this.