#BackwardCompatibility

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-07-10

πŸš€πŸŽ₯ "Grok 4 Launch" video: Watch as X Corp. bravely ignores the concept of backward compatibility. πŸ–₯οΈπŸ”„ Time to play browser bingo and hope your favorite isn't on their kill list! πŸ˜‚πŸ“‰
twitter.com/xai/status/1943158

Angie RadtkeAngieRadtke
2025-05-28

The is now baseline and will make easier
issue:

if (!('Popover' in window)) {

load old script
}

Has anyone ever tried this? I am worried about the time delay and ask myself if I should just wait a while ....

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-05-16

In a bold move, decided to Google Closure like a rebellious teenager claiming , while still living in Google's basement. πŸš€πŸ”§ The devs must have realized that "backward compatibility" is just a fancy phrase for "please don't break our toys." πŸ˜‚
clojurescript.org/news/2025-05

2025-05-08

In Spring 5, HttpMethod became a problem.
In Spring 6, we could finally fix it.
New blog post on enums, backward compatibility, and quiet corrections:

poutsma-principles.com/blog/20

#Spring #Java #APIDesign #BackwardCompatibility

BlueBirdBack ✨BlueBirdBack
2025-02-26

Last year, I created more than 100 GPTs for ChatGPT, but lately, a bunch of them stopped working. It seems OpenAI's update to their AI model is the culprit. Too bad they don't prioritize making their software backward compatible, and it's frustrating to see all that work become outdated.

bluebirdback.com/2025/02/26/op

Christian Pietsch (old acct.)chpietsch@digitalcourage.social
2023-01-31

@rhaen Yes, I am migrating several GNU/Linux servers these days, and I am getting increasingly annoyed with programmers who give a shit about backward compatibility.

The other case I tripped over is Fabric, a deployment tool for Python. Fabric 2 is what you get when you `apt install python3-fabric` on Debian 11. However, Fabric 2 uses a configuration language that is incompatible with Fabric 1. So existing users need to figure out that instead of using the Debian package, they need to do `pip install fab-classic` to get a fork of Fabric 1 with updated dependencies. (There is another fork of Fabric 1 for Python 3 called fabric3, but that is now abandonware, so make sure you avoid it!)

The good thing is that Fabric 2 and Python just failed with my old configuration file instead of doing nonsensical stuff like Perl did in my previous example.

#Python #backwardCompatibility #Fabric

AtomicAlliance :verified:atomicalliance@nerdculture.de
2023-01-28

Oh man, ich bin mal wieder innerlich zerrissen. Vor einigen Wochen war es noch klar …. eine #PS5 muss ins Haus. Nun bin ich wieder am struggeln und schwanke zwischen #XboxSeriesX bzw. #PS5. #GamePass und #BackwardCompatibility vs. PlayStation Exclusives. πŸ€ͺ

ΰ€°ΰ€žΰ₯ΰ€œΰ€Ώΰ€€ (Ranjit Mathew)rmathew
2020-05-14
2019-05-16

ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'TYPE=MyISAM' at line 8

*30min* I've been searching for the cause of this in a dump generated by phpmyadmin.

…

devside.net/wamp-server/php-an

Β« The SQL syntax was changed from "TYPE=" to "ENGINE="… Β»

Hey #MySQL, have you ever heard about #BackwardCompatibility ??? 🀦

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