[OT] Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You

[Ben]

On Monday, 17 August 2020 at 15:17:23 UTC, Mathias LANG wrote:
> Another key difference is that you can opt-out of the 
> deprecation, pretty easily. Just don't update your compiler. Or 
> your dependencies. We don't remove old versions from the 
> website, so if your code compiled with v2.052.0, then it will 
> still compile with it today...

Good luck with that. I assume you also like your application open 
to potential security issues as you are now relying on older 
compiler version and packages ( that also need specific aka newer 
compiler versions at times! ).

Its always easy to say you can opt-out but the reality is 
different.