forwards

Guess what forwards natively packets to the correct IPs?

The child window has to wait until the parent window forwards the event for the second thread to pop it off.

I can even do port forwards to internal hosts using -L or LocalForward directives.

The lowest bidder or the friend of a friend wins the contract who then skims off the top and then forwards work to sub and sub contractors and so on.

Traditional Cocoa-like approaches are a step backwards in that area, not forwards.

In a kind of perverse way, you can actually get better forwards compatibility with a non-native port like this.

Once a few big companies release Android apps with a sub-par design, other companies see this and follow suit, continuing the trend forwards.

Computer scientists focus interesting algorithms and pushing the state of the art forwards, regardless of usefulness.

Again, if you cannot manifest your intelligence in a way that forwards your agenda, who cares?To phrase it in a more confrontational way: if nobody is forced to contend with your mind, nobody knows it exists.

Backwards compatibility even with IE6, forwards compatibility with optimizations that haven't been invented yet and no 80s era blob+VM architecture in sight.

You have to balance document open time, document save time, file size, backwards compatibility, forwards compatibility, recovery modes, interoperability, size in memory, parsing time, time to save to disk, proprietary embedded file formats, metadata support, and more.

PSD was never intended to be a data interchange format: it is the serialization format of a single program that has more individual unrelated features that actual people rely on than almost any other piece of software and has maintained striking amounts of backwards compatibility and almost unbroken forwards compatibility during its over two decades of existence.