• kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    There are only two reasons softwares goes for decades without being replaced:

    1. It’s so unimportant that nobody uses it
    2. It’s so important that the last major bug was squashed 15 years ago
    • britaliope@kourjetez.bzhEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Also : it’s very complex and it happens to work fine for decades.

      If one day i write a code project and manage to make it work without any major issues for several decades, there is no way i attemptto rewrite it.

      • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Yeah, there’s almost 100 years of law, case law and agency regulations built into how this software works. And they fired all the people that knew anything about it.

    • EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      But dude, bro, we could put the entire system on the blockchain man, and make it super efficient with an AI backend that will remove all errors bro.

      Dude it’s not even written in Rust bro. WTF is this dinosaur shit?