Slightly pedantic, but according to core-utils GitHub, false.c has not been changed in 21 years. But true.c, which is what false.c is based on, has been changed as recent as 4 months ago.

I couldn’t resist looking it up, and found the results mildly interesting.

It is committed long-term maintenance that separates a road from a desire pathway.

It is committed long-term maintenance that eventually makes software solid enough to be someone else's substrate.

/bombast

yeah, I bet there was a bunch of crap written 30y ago too, the difference was no npm or github

Yes

And while not exactly applicable for the computer example but generally everytime this example is brought up

ROMANS DID NOT HAVE 40 FUCKING TON TRUCKS

Much less so 100s per hour

Roman infrastructure was/is impressive no doubt

But not that impressive

Sure, but we have been running the same Linux command line tools now for the 30 years ive been on Linux. None of them have had any noticable bugs and none of them have been replaced, until maybe now recently with some rust versions that are still not default.

They are incredibly actually. We dont have that in software engineering anymore. We add features and bloat to all modern software until it needs to be replaced.

Nah. The dumpster fire known as gcc still survived until this day.

There's a reason why almost every new optimization/language starts with llvm.

Good point. Same thing with music for example.

What are you guys doing to your JS packages for them to last so long?

That Roman road also didn't have thousands of multi-ton vehicles rolling over it every day.

Yeah, so not ideal, but still workable despite being built off ancient technology in an ancient time.

I suppose there was a big fire. Sulfuric acid would have eaten the steel reinforcement, leaving the asphalt alone, more or less.

Jquery user here..

*scripter

time_t is in libc headers, just rebuild and good to go

The only time climate change is helping us with that, by heating up the air so much the asphalt melts.