• Dasnap@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I know I shouldn’t put too much weight onto what the numbers actually mean, but it’s still weird to think we’re only on version 6 after all this time.

    • xthexder@l.sw0.com
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      1 year ago

      I blame browsers for their out of control versioning.

      Chrome is on version 118 now and gets a bump roughly every 6 months. Firefox is 4 years older, yet they started following the same rapid versioning at version 5 to “keep up” with Chrome which was already on version 12 but a younger browser.

      • space@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        Their release cycle is rougly 1 month. Same with all other browsers. I know because I worked on a tool that had to keep up with browser versions.

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      1 year ago

      Even more weird: Version 3 was released in 2011. In the same timespan we went from 2 -> 3 we went from 3 -> 6!