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by donkeybeer 1596 days ago
Native software has been doing this for ages, its nothing new or difficult. It is a matter of choosing technologies that we can be sure have a good chance of existing and working the same years into the future. Well written C code is one such example. None of the experimental flavor of the month stuff is going to endure, what endures and keeps enduring is stuff like ANSI C and attempting to use only standard features of POSIX/windows api etc.