This is totally me just being naive, I don’t work in the software realm but do have an interest possibly one day, but if we have stuff that’s been able to run (seemingly) successfully for years, or maybe even decade, what maintenance needs to even be done on old programs? Is this simply for people discovering security vulnerabilities and patching them? Is there more to it than that?
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Security vulnerabilities are one.
But it’s also just the fact that other people are updating their software. Say you make a program for windows computers. Well you can only design for windows as it currently exists, you don’t know what kind of changes they will make in the future.
So maybe when to next windows update comes out, your program still works totally fine, or maybe your program now has some weird small bug because of some random change that windows made, or maybe your program doesn’t work at all anymore.
If you aren’t actively keeping up with it, there will be a day where your program no longer works as people update their computers
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