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There are only two reasons softwares goes for decades without being replaced:
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.
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.
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?
I don't think Rust is a bad language for doing same things people do with C++, but with a smaller standard and less legacy.
But yep, that's the kind of people.
About dinosaur things - I've started learning Tcl/Tk and it's just wonderful.
Tcl's small but, in its own weird way, almost perfectly formed. Seeing it mentioned after all those decades raised a smile.
Oh Rust is great, and it's on my learning to do list...but its evangelists are annoying as shit.
Agree, one of the reasons I haven't even started trying
There are no such systems. What instead happens is that the surrounding business process gets distorted to work around the unfixed major bugs. And then, everyone involved retires and nobody knows anymore why things are done that way.
I know devs like everything to be perfect, but if your business can work around it for 15 years without fixing the bug or replacing the system, I dare say it doesn’t qualify as a major bug.