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[–] ruffsl 1 points 1 year ago

But that seems like a small minority - the software world is fickle and the number of projects that last that long is small.

Indeed, although imagine the projects that do: a granddaughter resurrecting your repo and bringing a feature to completion well after your passing, such as porting it to use modern materials/libraries:

"Resurrecting the Phoenix Clock || INHERITANCE MACHINING"
- https://youtu.be/_2ZY1l8Iz0A

Where they have to dig through archived web forms and tutorials to find the manual/documentation that you would have used to put the project initially together. I'm sure there'll be some content creators in the future telling the same stories as the one above, but via a newer medium and with a Computer Science twist.