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Andrew (Television Executive)

Backwards compatibility!

This is a big one for me. I love our digital history. I view backwards compatibility as a *very* good thing.

But it's also ruining computers.

We get stuck dealing with yesterday's short sighted decisions. We get stuck making sure that our new hardware is saddled with the technical debt of our old software.

This introduces additional complexity, and additional security problems, and additional losses of performance.