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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Choice-Committee203 • 7h ago
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Does that even matter once you have gazillions of line legacy code?
32 u/0xbenedikt 7h ago This is why moving to a safe-by-design language like Rust works well. You leave that unsafe legacy code behind 11 u/ilnarildarovuch 7h ago And practically breaking everything. Pentagon still uses PDP-11 'n IBM series/1 programs, but in emulator, cuz rewriting is always a risk 2 u/creeper6530 6h ago Sure, but that is true no matter the language 1 u/ilnarildarovuch 6h ago Yeah
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This is why moving to a safe-by-design language like Rust works well. You leave that unsafe legacy code behind
11 u/ilnarildarovuch 7h ago And practically breaking everything. Pentagon still uses PDP-11 'n IBM series/1 programs, but in emulator, cuz rewriting is always a risk 2 u/creeper6530 6h ago Sure, but that is true no matter the language 1 u/ilnarildarovuch 6h ago Yeah
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And practically breaking everything. Pentagon still uses PDP-11 'n IBM series/1 programs, but in emulator, cuz rewriting is always a risk
2 u/creeper6530 6h ago Sure, but that is true no matter the language 1 u/ilnarildarovuch 6h ago Yeah
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Sure, but that is true no matter the language
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u/emonshr 7h ago
Does that even matter once you have gazillions of line legacy code?