[biofox]

This is the one thing I hate about software. I don't want to have to re-learn how to use a re-invented wheel every couple of years. I just want to use robust, time-tested tools to solve problems, like in virtually every other field of engineering.

[MauranKilom]

I'm not under the impression that e.g. pressure vessel design or bridge building follows the same safety rules now as it did 40 or 80 years ago. You might learn the same basics in university, but in practice the rules and tools are also evolving all the time.

So the "robust, time-tested tools to solve problems" also become obsolete in other fields of engineering. I think this is not unlike "compiler warns about more unsafe practices nowadays".

[layer8]

The velocity (aka churn) is a lot higher in software though, for questionable benefit.