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philistineyesterday at 9:57 PM1 replyview on HN

Yeah, Apple is very weary of breaking user functionality. They'll just break your app's ability to run.


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cosmic_cheeseyesterday at 10:04 PM

Frankly, I don't think it's practical to expect operating systems to continue to run binaries perfectly in perpetuity. It's an enormously burdensome expectation that holds development of the platform hostage.

Usually all it takes to keep one's software running on macOS is compiling against the latest SDK once every ~5 years. Depending on the nature of the app, source changes often aren't even required. As a dev I don't think that's too much to ask.

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