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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse (www.wired.com)
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[–] 56 points 2 years ago (9 children)

No. Java is not suited for this. This code runs on mainframes not some x86 shitbox cluster of dell blades. They literally could not purchase the hardware needed to switch to java in the timeline given. I get what you're trying to say but in this case Java is a hard no.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

    Uh, Java is specifically supported by IBM in the Power and Z ISA, and they have both their own distribution, and guides for writing Java programs for mainframes in particular.

    This shouldn't be a surprise, because after Cobol, Java is the most enterprise language that has ever enterprised.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    How old do you think the mainframes running Social Security are?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Probably a mix of Z systems, that stuff goes back 20-odd years, and even then older code can still run on new Z systems which is something IBM brags about.
    Mainframes aren't old they're just niche technology, and that includes enterprise Java software.

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