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by mindwok 228 days ago
100%. I’ve been neck deep over the past few months in developing a bunch of Windows applications, and it’s convinced me that never deprecating or removing anything in the name of backwards incompatibility is the wrong way. There’s a balance to be struck like anything, but leaving these things around means we continue to pay for them in perpetuity as new vulnerabilities are found or maintenance is required.