[Luctct]

That is probably what I hate the most about today's technology.

"compiled a decade ago"

Listen here, kid. Two and a half decades ago I had Windows 95 and I could browse the Web, send and receive email (or fax!), play music, play videos (or movies), play games, use instant messaging, program in multiple languages, use databases, run a mail or Web server on my desktop, read and edit documents in formats such as doc, rtf, xls, ppt, pdf, xml, desktop publishing, view and edit images including high re photos, including porn of course, make international phone calls, and a few other things.

And every single Tcl/Tk script (cli or gui) I wrote two decades ago still run 100% unchanged.

If you refrain from using anything just because it was "compiled a decade ago" then you are a fool. Sadly, you are not alone. Far from it.

[sph]

Weird take but ok. I abandoned my research into Rebol to look into Self (1987) and Smalltalk (1972).

The problem with abandonware languages like Rebol is that it's often impossible to use, find documentation for if not learn, and the commercial story and lack of any sense of open source of this probect is the reason why I just moved on. It seemed no one cared to look into it in the past decade, so I was content with what I had found, and stopped short of actually using the thing. I was wrong, but in my defence the active fork was doing its best to hide under a rock.

But I guess it feels good to call someone a kid and a fool over the Internet.

[em-bee]

a lot has happened in the last 10 years. and while the binary may still be good, it being that old suggests that it is no longer maintained, and in particular hasn't received any security updates. that doesn't mean that a recent binary is necessarily better, but it is at least more likely to be better.