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I worked in the automotive space (CAD/CAE/CAM) and there was tons of code that had commit headers starting in 1996 - the year they moved the previous code base
by mywittyname 2y ago
I worked in the automotive space (CAD/CAE/CAM) and there was tons of code that had commit headers starting in 1996 - the year they moved the previous code base into that particular VCS. Plenty of files had less than 10 commits to them since.
They still had some FORTRAN in the code base. According to my coworker who worked there for 25 years, his first project at the company involved the initiative to replace FORTRAN with C.
So yeah, there's plenty of C code hanging around that's not going anywhere.
- solarkraft 2y agoI wonder whether Rust will stick similarly because that's just how things go, less because now the migration process has been tested and the system is more flexible as a while or more because it's really pretty good enough this time.