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by fastball
2232 days ago
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If you can "upgrade", then it's not incompatible. Every major revision of software has breaking changes (or as you call them, "incompatibilities"), some more than others (see Python 2 -> 3). That doesn't mean it's "abandoned". Google made major API changes and renamed it to better communicate that it's not some simple JS framework – calling that abandoned is disingenuous. It's only abandoned in-so-far as every old version of every software ever gets abandoned at some point. |
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I cannot upgrade.
I have to port, due to the backwards-incompatible changes.
Those changes may well be for the better, but for those of us maintaining stable programs, porting means increasing risk of failure for no perceivable end user benefit.
Microsoft is much better at supporting old tools and software, at least historically.