Not-yet-TT: “Back to the Drawing Board” edition

I know that Tony 4.1 was recently released, but it was, at best, a stopgap maintenance update.

I’m not sure the engineers will be able to make their deadline for Tony 5.0, and besides, the entire system is structured on a flimsy code base to begin with.

Tony 4.x is long in the tooth, irrelevant, tired, suffering from a dwindled user base, and frankly just doesn’t want to be here anymore.

If there is going to be another major release (and at this point that is far from being a certainty), it’s going to take a massive rebuilding from the ground up. And I can’t say for sure if the engineering staff has either the resources or the will to make that happen.

He imagined himself going on across the world, all the way to the sea. He imagined himself growing up and growing older, bringing himself up by his bootstraps. Somewhere in there he would become fabulously wealthy. And then he would go back to the house with the twins in it, and he would drive up to their door in his wonderful car, or perhaps he would turn up at a football game (in his imagination the twins had neither aged nor grown) and look down at them, in a kindly way. He would buy them all, the twins, his parents, a meal at the finest restaurant in the city, and they would tell him how badly they had misunderstood him and mistreated him. They apologized and wept, and through it all he said nothing. He let their apologies wash over him. And then he would give each of them a gift, and afterward he would leave their lives once more, this time for good.
Neil Gaiman, October in the Chair