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Most technologies continue to improve with innovation, like WiFi. What is a technology that was nearly perfect upon conception? (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] scytale@piefed.zip 32 points 2 days ago

The MIDI protocal. The technologies that use it have evolved in all sorts of ways, but the protocol has remained unchanged.

[-] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 2 points 22 hours ago

MIDI protocol for users might be good enough but for developers is a nightmare if you want to do advanced synthesis

[-] Coopr8@kbin.earth 19 points 2 days ago

MPE and MIDI 2.0 would like a word zir

[-] scytale@piefed.zip 15 points 2 days ago

That’s fair. But the fact that MIDI 1.0 isn’t going away anytime soon shows how good it was from conception. From Sweetwater:

Because MIDI 2.0 coexists well with MIDI 1.0, it’s likely MIDI 1.0 devices will continue to be produced in the future if MIDI 2.0’s features are not needed for a particular application. In developing MIDI 2.0, backward compatibility with MIDI 1.0 was always a priority.

MIDI 2.0 is not about replacing the original specification but about adding features that enhance the spec with features users have wanted almost since MIDI 1.0 appeared.

[-] Coopr8@kbin.earth 7 points 2 days ago

The best inventions do progress with backwards compatibility

this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2025

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