Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
kibiz0r@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
There are only two reasons softwares goes for decades without being replaced:
It’s so important that the last major bug was squashed 15 years ago
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.
EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks 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?
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
futatorius@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Tcl’s small but, in its own weird way, almost perfectly formed. Seeing it mentioned after all those decades raised a smile.
EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Oh Rust is great, and it’s on my learning to do list…but its evangelists are annoying as shit.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Agree, one of the reasons I haven’t even started trying