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At what point does the cost of tech migration outweigh the cost of training people on a more and more specialist paid language just to not have to migrate to a memory safe higher level language like C or Go or Rust or Lua.

Didn’t say python because oh sweet Jesus the slowdown alone would grind the global economy to a halt if we were running all our banking software on Python XD

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calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
C and memory safety, name a more iconic duo /s

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- PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Something something better tools too shoot yourself in the foot with something something
  
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gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Didn’t say python because oh sweet Jesus the slowdown alone would grind the global economy to a halt if we were running all our banking software on Python XD

ah so we just need to persuade banks to switch to python. Noted

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Tosti@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The trick will be reverse engineering a lot of the mechanics. Also some old systems control hardware that still works and will be replaced when the hardware is replaced.

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