I feel like I need to wear glasses to look at the Tahoe icons. They seem blurry or smudged, out of focus.

Gattaca was a warning, not an instruction manual.

Had experience with programmers not knowing VCS in general.

I'm more of a Lotus guy.

1337 h4xx0rz used hastalavista for warez.

Demo from 12 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK2H7lKbtLk

I have a 2015 Air running El Capitain, never updated itself.

Just 2 days ago my MacBook closed all apps it could and tried to update from 26.3.1 to 26.5

I guess current version matters.

It’s most likely about the severity of the bugs they are fixing. I’m OK for my laptop to save my work and self upgrade if that closes a browser drive-by RCE vulnerability that could have hit me.

98 SE or XP SP2.

Nope, I am with @sharts here.

In my then job we called Win98 "GameOS" and I have zero nostalgia for it and the horrid IE4 "Active Desktop". Yuck.

By XP the rot and bloat were getting serious.

W2K was the peak. All downhill since.

Neat.

Java and Ruby were created in 1995.

Lua in 1993.

Python in 1991.

C in 1972.

Lisp in 1960.

Big difference in using a genric name 45yrs ago vs using generic name post 2020

So the "trend* is that everyone didn't figure out the arbitrary deadline you came up with on when everyone should stop using regular words?

You don't use the same marketing strategies as people did in 1960 if you want to sell your product in 2026 unless you purposefully want to fail.

So, tracing back to the original comment in this thread, Go and Rust were failures due to them having insufficient mindshare? If anything, people have often criticized the Rust community for marketing too much.