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e100:
For me the Mosquito MQQT server on Linux and the SQLite library on Windows have both been trouble free for over a year, so I would be happy to use either in future projects.

Currently I'm looking at Node Red to see if it can be trusted to do mission critical stuff. I see various posts that cast doubt on its robustness, but there are also people who claim to never have problems. Initially I just be using it as a dash board to display diagnostic information while leaving critical code running on a microcontroller.

I've been experimenting with the Kotlin programming language on Windows/Linux as a way of migrating C++ code from a Microcontroller so I can speed up an iterative development process. Kotlin compiles to Java byte code so has all the advantages and disadvantages of the Java runtime. So far I haven't seen any negatives and the free development tools from the Jetbrains company are top notch.

What software have you used that works all the time (like it's supposed to) and what have you shelved because it didn't have the required stability?

Doctorandus_P:
I've always been happy with my C and C++ compilers.

Years ago I was curious about python, but the python version idiocy was so ridiculous that I abandoned it.
Python 2.7 has been officially dead now for over a year and there are still projects struggling to get to Python 3 because of old libraries that have not been updated yet.

I stuck with DOS until Windoze 95, that was quite buggy but usable. Windoze 98 and 2k were very much needed bug fixes. But in later years they got absolutely bonkers with forced GUI changes and updates. I once was at a funeral gathering and halfway a presentation the Windoze pc had to reboot itself because of an update for a printer driver ??? My brother has a big CNC Router (1500x3000mm) with Mach3. He had to press the "cancel" button every half hour during a 5 hour CNC job or his CNC machine would reboot and botch the job.

I finally ditched windoze myself when I saw a "blue tiles of death screen" at startup and no normal menu structure. Then I switched to Linux completely and never looked back.


I've bought "Ultiboard" twice (dos and windoze) and it has always been very buggy. It became so bad that after a time I did not even bother to install the new version when they send a new CD. Now for a few years I'm quite happy with KiCad.

rstofer:
It's been a bit over 50 years but I am still using IBM 1130 Fortran.  It worked then, it works now!

Attached is a .txt file with the source for the attached plot.  The plot is sent from my FPGA implementation of the 1130 over to my LaserJet.

It's just pretty looking code.

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: rstofer on December 15, 2020, 06:13:33 pm ---It's been a bit over 50 years but I am still using IBM 1130 Fortran.  It worked then, it works now!

Attached is a .txt file with the source for the attached plot.  The plot is sent from my FPGA implementation of the 1130 over to my LaserJet.

It's just pretty looking code.

--- End quote ---

Looks a little reminiscent of VB?

SilverSolder:

There are a few open source applications I can think of that have been very stable and trustworthy for me, even running on (shock!) Windows:

Audacity (audio editor)
The Gimp (photo/graphic editor)
Inkscape (Vector editor)

All of them are relatively compact and run as portable software, and they don't suffer from needless UI changes every few years.

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