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Ask HN: What are the pieces of software that may last forever?

34 pointsby samrohnabout 5 years ago
My answer git, bitcoin, wikipedia

30 comments

newswasboringabout 5 years ago
I'm pretty sure Matlab will last forever. There is a healthy company backing it with technology lock in from many, many companies where programming is not their core competence.
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m1kalabout 5 years ago
TeX, BLAS, Vim and Emacs
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CM30about 5 years ago
Does the browser stack (HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JavaScript) count as software? If so, I don&#x27;t see any of those going anywhere. The world wide web probably isn&#x27;t going to be replaced anytime soon, and web browser fundamentals probably aren&#x27;t going to change either.<p>Then again, programming languages and scripting languages in general seem like they&#x27;ll last forever. Sites and programs may come and go, but the languages they&#x27;re written in will probably be around for the long haul.
sgillenabout 5 years ago
The Linux kernel. Just because it’s everywhere right now. Even in 1000 years when hardware has moved on, someone will want to virtualize&#x2F;emulate some hardware that was running Linux.
_jon_about 5 years ago
MS Excel
bruttabout 5 years ago
&#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;true
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helijabout 5 years ago
I would say some form of spreadsheet software will be with us for awhile.
benologistabout 5 years ago
I don&#x27;t think much software will be useful even for one century because of competing implementations, changing requirements etc, but Github could be an archaeological treasure-trove one day.
lasereyes136about 5 years ago
Nothing lasts forever. No software, no programming languages, no operating systems. They will all pass out of use.<p>I see only git, vim, and emacs lasting until the end of my life.
RandomBaconabout 5 years ago
Linux, PHP
dutymainttechabout 5 years ago
vi &#x2F; vim
zzo38computerabout 5 years ago
I doubt it will last forever, but some things will last much longer than others, such as possibly TeX.
pdimitarabout 5 years ago
sqlite, definitely. It has a multitude of possible applications <i>and</i> you can built on top of it to make a more advanced use-case possible.
gentrybabout 5 years ago
emacs
c22about 5 years ago
Windows XP. I still see it running ancient kiosks and machine tools.
m33k44about 5 years ago
Hello World examples.
Tomteabout 5 years ago
Quicksort pseudo-code.
joseluisabout 5 years ago
Pong, Tetris, Forth
ntnlabsabout 5 years ago
cobol, obviously :)
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amypinkaabout 5 years ago
Libc, zlib, sqlite3
reikonomushaabout 5 years ago
75% of code in Common Lisp.
rocco337about 5 years ago
irfan view
hackerman123469about 5 years ago
winrar
mcvabout 5 years ago
Anything written in COBOL.
davegulimlimabout 5 years ago
SAP will last forever.
jamiewebabout 5 years ago
AMI BIOS?
enjoyyourlifeabout 5 years ago
C
searchableguyabout 5 years ago
electron, chrome
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koolhead17about 5 years ago
spreadsheets
postcynicalabout 5 years ago
leftPad