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My entire industry (subset of healthcare) mostly uses a single application for 95% of our core business functions. That application is written in Visual FoxPro
by Icathian 6y ago
My entire industry (subset of healthcare) mostly uses a single application for 95% of our core business functions. That application is written in Visual FoxPro and is, predictably, pretty terrible. Obviously it isn't going to get better, either, but it'll be a decade or more before there's a serious competitor.
- ghaff 6y agoI'm not near the space any longer (in a former life, the healthcare industry was a big customer of our computer systems). But a significant portion of healthcare in the US used to use a proprietary language called MUMPS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
- alextheparrot 6y agoEpic has been trying to move on for years, or so a recruiter told me half a decade ago. Their job posting now describes “Using leading-edge technologies and languages like JS, TS, and C#”, though I wouldn’t put a bait and switch past them.
- ghaff 6y agoMEDITECH, maybe others, had a proprietary operating system too. (We had a special deal to sell them hardware without an OS at a time when they were normally bundled.) Eventually they moved on to NT.
- akx 6y agoYeah, well, they have a thing called TS2M, referred to e.g. here... https://www.reddit.com/r/epicsystems/comments/9pmsjj/ts2m_in_use/ https://www.reddit.com/r/epicsystems/comments/9pmsjj/ts2m_in...
- p_l 6y agoMUMPS is quite popular in finance, mostly through Cache product. Including for new developments.
- legulere 6y agoHah I’m also working in healthcare and we also use Visual FoxPro for storing data. Luckily most of the Visual FoxPro UI is gone.