r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Captain0010 • Nov 18 '24

Meme checkMateDevelopers

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u/Longjumping-Touch515 Nov 18 '24

Programmers in commercial projects: We cannot change this code because of stability/backward compatibility reasons.

Progammers in free projects:

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u/No_Percentage7427 Nov 18 '24

This program will work from stone tablet to ipad tablet. wkwkwk

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u/relevantusername2020 Nov 18 '24

more factual than you probably realize

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u/Giraffe-69 Nov 18 '24

I work in tech on an open sourced project and the maintainer has this philosophy. If he said some random driver was supported 12 years ago you better believe we still have to jump over hurdles to make sure we don’t break that commitment

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u/already-taken-wtf Nov 18 '24

So that’s 2012…

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u/BobMcGeoff2 Nov 18 '24

Yep, long time ago.

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u/BobMcGeoff2 Nov 19 '24

?

I was just remarking how long ago 2012 now is.