• rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    This is part of the reason why e-Mail works the same now as it did in the 80s.

    I still want to see a proof that there isn’t a technical solution for this.

    There are things like versioned APIs, backwards compatibility… You can make your network protocol modular and extensible… Think of XMPP and some other examples.

    E-Mail is somewhat alright and has a few good design choices. That’s why it’s still around today. With the additional lessons learned since then, todays knowledge and tools, I bet we can design some technical solutions to the upgradeablility-problem.