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> How confident can you be predicting 30 years in the future? Note that 30 years ago was 1991. 30 years ago, in the '90s, the company I now work for developed
by flyingfences 5y ago
> How confident can you be predicting 30 years in the future? Note that 30 years ago was 1991.
30 years ago, in the '90s, the company I now work for developed an important system for a very large customer. It replaced an older system that was developed along with the equipment it runs, introduced in the '60s -- another 30 years prior. My current project is developing a replacement for the current system. It's the exact same system, but written in C to run on a Cortex-M instead of Ada on an Intel.
In another 30 years, we'll probably be re-implementing the exact same system, but written in Rust to run on a RISC-V chip.