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

There are only two reasons softwares goes for decades without being replaced:

  1. It’s so unimportant that nobody uses it
  2. It’s so important that the last major bug was squashed 15 years ago
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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Also : it's very complex and it happens to work fine for decades.

    If one day i write a code project and manage to make it work without any major issues for several decades, there is no way i attemptto rewrite it.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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?

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

    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.

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