[JoeAltmaier]

I've come to the conclusion that "All software is ultimately abandoned". Ours is a fast-changing industry. If software isn't abandoned, it probably should be. Its the oldest frameworks and languages that get the most criticism.

[oneeyedpigeon]

Big parts of the toolset I use every day are several decades old; if done correctly, software can be iterated and refined until it's of a very high quality. In my experience, it tends to stand a much greater chance the smaller it is (the best examples I'm thinking of are small unix command-line tools like find, grep).

[JoeAltmaier]

Yet I resent every time I have to use grep, instead of a tool integrated with my IDE. Certainly those baroque old tools have their detractors too. That they survive so long (like vi and emacs) due to cults, not objective evaluation?

[oneeyedpigeon]

I use sublime text as my main editor, but I still need to use vi from time-to-time - e.g. when ssh'ing to a remote server. That's definitely an objective need, unless you can offer an alternative that is just as widely available.

[hibbelig]

De gustibus non disputandem.

I like grep... It does not do the same thing as Ctrl+F in my editor, but that's fine.