In theory it is a horrible idea. No port like this ever works out. An incremental approach has much higher chance of success but will take long.
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ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In theory, it wouldn’t be a necessarily bad idea to port the COBOL code to something more modern, but I cannot trust Muskrat and a few vibe coder youngsters with this task.
letzlo@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
in theory yeah it’s not a bad idea but it’s also 60 million lines of a cobol
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
If these people are good enough to redo federal codebases I should apply for a coding job already
800XL@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Bro. Check it out bro, we’re gonna like make it this dope Electron app, bro. It’ll interface with X, bro and everyone will have to login there to get their money, bro. Don’t worry tho, you’ll get paid in recession-proof Trumpbux crypto currency as long as you claim it in time. But X gets a fee of 60% bro.
Seriously bro we like hired a bunch of grads that took a one week X created code boot camp that like you know revolved around a language big balls created called “cyber coin purse++”. On second thought bro we’re rewriting it in that. Should be like 2 weeks to rewrite it cuz old people wrote the current code and they’re like old or whatever bro. Like I live in an old person’s basement and they’re just like old, bro.