[LAD] Potential MIDI headaches?

[bill-auger]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 12:20:23 +0100 Ralf wrote:
> So if your app works well with the current MIDI, you don't need to
> migrate to MIDI 2.0.

oh, how true that resonates

i am just amazed at how many people are obsessed with novelty and would
disagree with that (perfectly reasonable and accurate) statement - to
many, the mere fact that v.N+1 exists, automatically renders v.N as:
"old cheese", with an imperative to discard it immediately (for no other
reason), as to avoid being accused of falling behind the cool kids on
the bleeding edge

for people who think that way, the merits of backward-compatibility do
not carry much weight in comparison to the sexier "disruptive" approach
- in fact it is more likely to be seen as ridiculous or irresponsible to
make use of any "old" thing that could potentially be replaced by
some newer and shinier thing, regardless of compatibility or any true
benefit (or lack thereof) in doing so

because after all, '2' is clearly better (and much more awesome) than
'1' :)