Dr. Hawkins wrote:
And speaking from experience: the *alpha* release of system 7 was far more stable than things coming out of Redmond in the following decades
I think you hit on a key point there. While Apple does provide some lead time for developers working with preview editions, in terms of complexity and scope it isn't reasonable to compare LiveCode to most relatively simple consumer apps. Being effectively a VM, LC has arguably much more in common with an OS than a consumer app.
Given this, the relatively short delays we see between OS releases and updates to LiveCode to accommodate any lack of backward compatibility the OS vendor may have introduced is pretty good.
It's also worth noting that most cases involving backward compatibility issues are unique to Apple systems. Windows and even the Linux community do a much better job of supporting legacy code even as they move their respective platforms forward.
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