Apparently you know the feeling when a competitor comes up and do 80% of what you're doing for half the cost (in dev time, memory weight, etc.). Hell, it still

Apparently you know the feeling when a competitor comes up and do 80% of what you're doing for half the cost (in dev time, memory weight, etc.). Hell, it still feels unfair even when it's a coworker who gets tasked with redoing (usually using some trendy new stuff) the system you've been maintaining for so long and know by heart, and that you've dreamed to rewrite for an equally long time. You comfort yourself by saying they will run into the same problems that just wait their time in a dark corners of software or hardware. But they generally are in a much better position, with their smaller and simpler software, to deal with it than with old software.