Comment on The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 day agoDo they though…? I’m not sure they do.
Comment on The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 day agoDo they though…? I’m not sure they do.
bytesonbike@discuss.online 1 day ago
This rumor persists for so long. I’ve been in tech for now twenty years, and juniors say this all the time. Also, I’m hired to replace archaic code with modern equivalents, so my perspective is one from the other side.
A few key things I discovered:
Finally, those archaic systems get forced into retirement. Yes, there are still integrated systems like ATM and missiles or whatever that use these languages.
But that’s so extremely rare that they’re still being maintained. Because companies will allocate a budget to have some dipshit programmer like me come in, rewrite the functionality in whatever language (the last one I did was a interface from a PoS system to a web application, which I did in PHP), and then throw away the code.