Hell, I have shirts older than the language it's written in.
In 20 years, I might not even be able to find a working compiler to build it, after the shiny-object crowd moves on to something else.
You know what I'll still be able to decrypt? An ASCII-armored, GPG encrypted, TAR archive.
Personally, I am not interested in the latest evolutionary improvements on file formats. Evolution produces a lot of interesting things; most of them are dead ends. What I want is the cockroach of file formats. The coelacanth.
You will be able to decrypt a file produced by age. All the cryptography there is standard, you'll have a compatible library in whatever language you'll use in 20 years, if you think the first party Go and Rust implementations won't survive.
Using common libraries, I can create a python program to decrypt a file produced by age in a few hours, I think.
No. Brand new means completely new. Something that's going on 3 years old isn't brand new anymore.
A more appropriately term is relatively new. Civilization is relatively new compared to the age of the universe. Age is relatively new compared to modern computers.
Hell, I have shirts older than the language it's written in.
In 20 years, I might not even be able to find a working compiler to build it, after the shiny-object crowd moves on to something else.
You know what I'll still be able to decrypt? An ASCII-armored, GPG encrypted, TAR archive.
Personally, I am not interested in the latest evolutionary improvements on file formats. Evolution produces a lot of interesting things; most of them are dead ends. What I want is the cockroach of file formats. The coelacanth.