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What, exactly, was "obsolete" about those libraries. Did the code stop executing? Were they written in languages whose compilers/interpreters stopped functioning? Or were there simply newer, shinier toys to play with?


Absolutely everything connected to the internet needs to be kept up to date for a simple reason. Security.

We're past the 90's when "the code stopped executing" was the only valid reason for an update :-)


If it was written in python, it can really stop working. Most companies are transitioning to Python3.


If you think I'm joking, there are huge companies that have already declared Python2 as non-supported software, so if you have any software written in Python2 you have to either rewrite or stop using it.




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