I’m curious how software can be created and evolve over time. I’m afraid that at some point, we’ll realize there are issues with the software we’re using that can only be remedied by massive changes or a complete rewrite.

Are there any instances of this happening? Where something is designed with a flaw that doesn’t get realized until much later, necessitating scrapping the whole thing and starting from scratch?

  • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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    5 months ago

    Alsa > Pulseaudio > Pipewire

    About 20 xdg-open alternatives (which is, btw, just a wrapper around gnome-open, exo-open, etc.)

    My session scripts after a deep dive: full rewrite, structured to be Xorg/waylamd/terminal independent, uses sx instead startx and custom startxfce4 as base. Seriously, startxfce4 has workarounds from the 80ies and software rot affected formatting already.

    Turnstile instead elogind (which is bound to systemd releases)

    mingetty, because who uses a modem nowadays?

    • Samueru@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      About 20 xdg-open alternatives (which is, btw, just a wrapper around gnome-open, exo-open, etc.)

      I use handlr-regex, is it bad? It was the only thing I found that I could use to open certain links on certain web applications (like android does), using exo-open all links just opened on the web browser instead.