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by fennecfoxy 1202 days ago
Granted, we have all moved from receiving updates to languages/frameworks once every 1-3 years (C# etc) or C++ with 3-8 years and instead get them monthly (sometimes even daily).

Devs from the past who wrote chunks of FORTRAN that sat on a "dusty 386 in the basement for 30 years" are still around, what do they think of the constantly evolving field/goalposts vs more traditional, slower release cadence of languages/frameworks/software in general (afaik; I wasn't around for it).