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by Slothrop99 82 days ago
Maybe I didn't look hard enough, but there's no obvious switch to "just turn off all the legacy stuff, thnx".

Also, there has been a huge amount of churn on the tooling side, and if you have a legacy app, you probably don't wanna touch whatever build program was cool that year. I've got a react app which is almost 10 years old, there has to be tons of stuff which is even older.
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vkou 82 days ago
> Maybe I didn't look hard enough, but there's no obvious switch to "just turn off all the legacy stuff, thnx".

There is. Break compatibility for it, and whatever poor bastard that is still maintaining software that is targeting a PalmPilot is free to either pin to an older version of your library, or fork it. Yes, that's a lot of pain for him, but it makes life a little easier for everyone else.

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josephg 81 days ago
This is my philosophy too. If the nodejs project doesn't support node 18, why on earth should I?

Here's the schedule, if anyone hasn't seen it. Node 18 is EOL. Node 20 goes EOL in a bit over a month.

https://nodejs.org/en/about/previous-releases

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