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[โ€“] kleeon@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

idk why a trillion dollar company can't write a program that simply shows you a list of files. Their new notepad is also shockingly slow and I just can't imagine how

[โ€“] hello_hello@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Legacy proprietary codebase, so every new person who has to be brought on has to be trained for months on how to navigate it, with all its idiosyncratic behavior.

Combine that with the fact that development speed stagnates the more people are added onto a project you get modern windows applications being held together by what worked 30 years ago.