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Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever
How we're preserving 12,000 legacy links as Google's URL shortener rides into the sunset
Otherwise, sadly, in August 2025 those links will stop working, joining the great digital graveyard alongside Flash games and GeoCities pages. The redirect chains we built were clever workarounds that bought us time, but ultimately, the only way to truly keep a promise of “URLs that last forever” is to own the entire stack. It’s been a fascinating archaeological dig through the internet, hunting down these legacy links like some sort of digital Indiana Jones, except instead of ancient artifacts I’m rescuing compiler flags and optimization examples.
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