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My java apps from uni days still work on windows and non-arm macs. With a little tweaking for opengl links, arm works too.

My old uni android apps still work on android last i checked. With a recompilation my ios apps work on ios too.

However, with absolutely zero work, ALL of my web stuff across all time works just like it used to even the angular 1 stuff.

It is why i love web so much. It is the ultimate distribution platform with so little needless churn.



Can you still build your old projects? The ones developed using node6?

I do not agree on this statement at all.


NVM is great, as long as the packages still exists, you can just switch to node6 for this one build.


Node6? You know js doesnt need node to build right? First stuff primary non-node based bundlers and script tags to libraries. I know old school.


And yet some bundles did / do run on node.

Regardless, the fragmentation you emphasize here is yet another issue why you'd probably have issue building a 10 year old project.


Weird, i just ran an old gulp based bundled project using bun without issues. I think there are problems with web tooling fragmentation but this argument sounds contrived as an attack the web platform. Js code from 10+ years ago runs without modification today which was the point. Tooling changes over time ofc.


Oh boy, do inhave a lot of projects I want your magic fingers to build for me since you will never have any issue just doing it on bun!




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