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Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat (www.theregister.com)
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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

iOS

At my last job we had a stretch where we were maintaining four different iOS versions of our software: different versions for iPhones and iPads, and for each of those one version in Objective-C and one in Swift. If anyone thinks "wow, that was totally unnecessary", that should have been the name of my company.