alt Hacker News> Heck, even MCP itself isn’t new—the spec was released by Anthropic in November, but it suddenly blew up in February, 3 months later.
Wow, the idea of what's "new" in software has always been really short, but damn, it's becoming questionable whether anything can be considered new these days.
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yeah it's crazy to think that claude 4 has only been out a month. And the previous iteration 3.7 was launched only in February!
but also I think the interesting thing is that people didn't jump on MCP immediately after it launched - it seemed to go almost unnoticed until February. Very unusual for AI tech - I guess it took time for servers to get built, clients to support the protocol, and for the protocol itself to go through a few revisions before people really understood the value.
Yeah, if this was the Javascript ecosystem 3 months would mean the original implementation has been moved to maintenance mode and only gets security updates from here forward. Everyone would need to start migrating to the replacement as soon as possible.