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Absolutely. Plenty of America runs on EOL Windows XP legacy apps that have been too complicated to migrate. Sometimes they run airgapped until someone realizes
by reilly3000 5y ago
Absolutely. Plenty of America runs on EOL Windows XP legacy apps that have been too complicated to migrate. Sometimes they run airgapped until someone realizes that isn’t practical. CEOs must demand better and be willing to pay for it. Without leadership support these migrations almost always fail.
- 7373737373 5y agoAnd (operating) system and programming language designers must make security a foundational property of their systems. Most modern languages will never be secure, because their semantics necessitate things like global names. Trying to graft security extensions onto an existing language that wasn't built with them in mind will be painstaking and will always lag behind and is thus often abandoned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_project