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by rot13xor 1434 days ago
"Write once, run for 20 years" is a strong value proposition. I dabbled in web dev and it's rare for third party libraries and services to go a year without breaking interface changes. Meanwhile a program written for Windows XP will likely still run on Windows 11 even without a recompile (perhaps the source code was lost). In the worst case you might have to run the binary in XP compatibility mode.