What finished/done/complete software do you use?

WinAmp 2.95

uTorrent 2.2.1

These should've been the final versions of either software, because despite their age - 20 and 10 years old respectively - the functionality and the UX are still nearly perfect and none of later versions carried any meaningful improvements.

Windows notepad. Permanently pinned to my taskbar. Opens instantly, nothing better for jotting something down quickly

Moment.js https://momentjs.com/docs/#/-project-status/

I use bc. There's only so much you can add to it.

I also think programmers should try to finish the software they write. https://gavinhoward.com/2019/11/finishing-software/

I would say that (La)TeX is probably the closest thing to "finished" software that I use on somewhat regular basis.

> A work is never completed, but merely abandoned.

YNAB4 budgeting software

Hope this counts, this is the end of life for the desktop product but they rewrote it as a web app but that is substantially different.

I still use Picasa (from Google) every day to organize and export photos.

It hasn’t received updates in years and doesn’t work on the latest versions of MacOS, but I still haven’t found anything else to replace it. While there are other photo organizers and other photo editors, this hit the sweet spot for me in addition to being fast.

I'm not quite sure I agree with the premise that a software is not to be considered "finished", until the moment it is abandoned.

There's a lot of software that I wouldn't want to use, if it doesn't at least still receive regular security updates.

I'll dare to go out on a leg here, and claim that a software that has a complete and stable set of core features probably can be considered "finished" - even if it still is under active development and receiving new features.

TeX and MetaFont [0].

Although to be fair, I also use LuaTeX quite a lot now...

[0] http://www.texfaq.org/FAQ-TeXfuture

If you're looking at manpages on some UNIX derivates (non-GNU), `troff` might be involved. AFAIK, that would very much qualify, even though the main reason might be that no one was able to decipher its code…

It looks like you can find a mirror of the Plan9 source for troff here: https://github.com/hollingberry/troff

Spectacle for Window Management on macOS https://www.spectacleapp.com/

Works perfectly and has not changed for a while.

It seems to be superseeded by https://rectangleapp.com/

ClipX ( https://bluemars.org/clipx/ ) Mezer Tools ( https://bayden.com/mezer/ ) AllSnap ( https://github.com/iheckman/allsnap )

No updates in years (this thread is making me realize one does have, minor, updates actually ...). Do what they do perfectly. (Except, only on my laptop, ClipX will randomly crash/close.)

NValt [0] for all my note-taking needs

DateTree [1] for organising my photos into folders by date

TextMate [2] for my default GUI text editor. I s'pose it's not really officially 'finished' but, given that entire civilisations rise and fall between major releases, I'm counting it as so.

[0] https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

[1] https://www.orange-carb.org/DateTree/

[2] https://macromates.com/

I was going to say xsnow but I realized that it was still maintained: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xsnow/

Skim PDF reader https://skim-app.sourceforge.io . Some macOS update made Preview refuse to search within old PDFs. Skim still will.

Not sure if it is still being developed/updated, but I use tkdiff as my gui diff viewer. I have an alias for it when using with git

    git difftool -t tkdiff -y

My software folder shows I had downloaded .gz copy in 2014 (that'd be the year I switched to Linux permanently). I use it because that's what I had used in my job and 99% of the time I just need to view the difference and use n/p keys to move around, nothing else. I only wish there was a way to wrap the long lines instead of having to use horizontal scroll bars.

Wii Homebrew: https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_Channel

This is interesting one: https://github.com/snark/jumpcut/commits/master?after=7f9772...

It was unmaintained for 7 years (at the time when I was using it), but looks like it's alive again. It's a simple program which "just worked".

There are so many apps that I wish the developers would stop ‘adding features’ to and simply maintain with changing os’s and security whatnot. But sales people want forever new features to justify charging for a new version in an arms race against competitor software. Abandoning the idea that software should be a tool and promoting software is a service is incredibly problematic.

Winmerge 2 It stayed without new release several years, and was still the best I could find on windows

ratpoison (https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/)

a simple tiling Window Manager modelled after GNU Screen. It hasn't seen any updates in 3 years but still works very well for me.

https://github.com/boltdb/bolt

https://github.com/jung-kurt/gofpdf

Xee3 image viewer on Mac (https://theunarchiver.com/xee). Hasn't updated in 3 years.

jrnl.sh [0] - Local notebook/journal software. Nothing fancy. Works.

[0] https://jrnl.sh/

csearch/cindex has not changed for 5 years, pretty useful and reliable https://github.com/google/codesearch

cscope: last version in 2012, combined with Vim http://cscope.sourceforge.net/

[edit] actually codesearch received 2 fixes in 2018

I have an offline computer with Windows 7. The computer does not have a network card and I use it to play old (obviously offline) games.

Microsoft Money. It's the "sunset edition". No updates anymore. Nothing comes close to it's cash flow forecast.

nload - displays the current network usage

Hasn't been updated since 2012, but I use it everyday. http://www.roland-riegel.de/nload/changelog

tex/latex.

i3wm is really damn stable.

i haven’t updated emacs in 3 years but i hear 27’s cool.

i also haven’t updated irssi in forever.

jujuedit [0] - utf8/hex/file-on-disk editor fast and small and native

[0] https://jujusoft.com/jujuedit/

Bill free. Invoice generating app for Mac OS. It just works.

Windows XP each time I use a DAB? (troll inside)

TeX is done.

MPC-HC

grep, pretty often.

All of the busybox alises, actually.

python 2