[HN Gopher] Kyle Explains "Legacy Software" to the Aliens
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Kyle Explains "Legacy Software" to the Aliens
Author : surprisetalk
Score : 38 points
Date : 2024-05-20 12:30 UTC (23 hours ago)
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| MR4D wrote:
| This was funny until I realized how depressing it is....sigh.
| skyyler wrote:
| >No, the people without internet generally have no money, so
| it's too unprofitable to think about them.
|
| Hit me like a punch to the gut.
| hiatus wrote:
| > No, the old languages are not slow. It's the old hardware
| that's slow. But the old languages don't run on the new
| computers.
|
| Which languages is this referring to?
| santoshalper wrote:
| Probably COBOL and Fortran, which can run on modern
| architectures, but in practice mostly don't.
| olliej wrote:
| People don't write application code in those languages but as
| I understand it cobol is still underpinning large swathes of
| the financial system, and similar applies to fortran in
| engineering and scientific computing.
| RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
| Meanwhile Alien:
|
| Even our most modern military motherships are able to perfectly
| run code that works on the 1950's models. We have truly achieved
| write once, run everywhere.
|
| (Independence Day 1996)
| beezlewax wrote:
| Then Will Smith made one change to their left-pad dependency..
| and the rest? History
| horeszko wrote:
| > Humanity is deprecating TypeScript next year, so we're
| migrating our proxy server to HypeScript.
|
| "HypeScript". This captures contemporary commercial software
| development and business in a nutshell. In a few short years it
| went from cryptocurrency/blockchain, to metaverse (for about 6
| months lol, gotta be a new record) to now AI (but somehow only if
| its a chatbot?).
| ozim wrote:
| Let's just skip that most used operating systems are corporation
| owned.
|
| Corporations were fighting long and hard to make their dev tools
| win and not allowing competition to make advances. Office on
| macOS was win by Microsoft because Apple needed it more. Apple
| iTunes on windows ugh that was terrible.
|
| Browsers now are accepted middle ground - well Apple is not
| really happy about it - but SaaS, cloud and browsers made OS less
| of a problem. If OS would be still relevant MS would not become
| so "open" with new .Net and else.
|
| Let's also think how capital intensive is writing a maintaining
| operating system or a browser. Let's skip over all the patents
| and IP rights, like if you won't make your own language you are
| owned by some corporation.
|
| If there would be no churn in tech we would be all nowadays
| drones owned by IBM having crappy devices they never ever iterate
| on because they like steady stream of income not new things.
|
| Microsoft happened because Bill wanted to make his own compiler
| it would not happen if he would accept status quo. The same with
| Apple - Woz and Steve wanted to make new computer and it was not
| compatible with whatever IBM had because they would sue and take
| them over.
|
| Node.js, electron and JS ecosystem also started because some
| people were expressing their freedom which is more important than
| having "single programming language for everything". (Yes Linus
| with Linux as well just to throw him in).
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