• lysdexicOPEnglish
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    Yet the world is full of code that was replaced with less work than it would take to fix a single bug on the broken original.

    Can you point out a concrete example? Because you’re commenting on a discussion on an essay that documents several notorious examples that demonstrate the opposite point.

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      I’m not extremely familiar with it, but I think X11 qualifies. I think it was determined that HDR support would be basically impossible to implement.