> You can say whatever about php and java but 20 year old code works fine with very minor changes; I have Node/JS code from 2 years ago that doesn't work anymor

> You can say whatever about php and java but 20 year old code works fine with very minor changes; I have Node/JS code from 2 years ago that doesn't work anymore at all after security updates. Doesn't that also depend on any libraries used? Java and the core framework have been stable but the rest of the ecosystem not so much. I do think we have a stability crises in "modern" tooling, if your a company that wants to upgrade your old COBOL code to something that will run for another 30 years of little to no maintenance then there are very few options. C, C++, maybe java and PHP are the only mainstream options that have shown any long term stability and even with those you have to be very careful about dependencies.