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		lapcat on Oct 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LabVIEW abandons Mac after 4 decades > In my experience it is not very long before an update nails MacOS software if you don't actively maintain it. That's not my experience. Of course the removal of 32-bit support in macOS Catalina was a killer, but otherwise I regularly use a number of older apps. Here's a notable example: via Rosetta, I'm still using the preference pane RCDefaultApp 2.1, which was last updated in 2009. It still works 14 years later! https://rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/index.html#versio...

jimnotgym on Oct 13, 2023 [–]

I think it very much depends what bits of the OS you are working with. I had an application I had a part in maintaining get nailed repeatedly by each generation of Apple Silicon and OS updates. It was working quite close to hardware though

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