alt Hacker NewsWhy conflate boring with old? "Boring" in this context means: proven and stable. Yes, that would take some time to become apparent, but the converse is not necessarily the case: a tech does not become "boring" in a good way simply because it is old.
All this was my understanding before, so not sure why you think "boring" was meant to be equivalent to "old"
Problem is official definition is „not interesting, tedious” with synonym „dull”.
As much as I do get the idea, I can see how promoting use of tedious to use and dull tools is something that really misses the mark.
Well known and mature tools are still sharp and lots of them are not tedious to use.