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> A shipped app, in a language nobody on the team knew Great! Let's look back on this not too far in the future.
by vhantz 5mo ago
> A shipped app, in a language nobody on the team knew
Great! Let's look back on this not too far in the future.
- tnelsond4 5mo agoYeah that's probably the only thing in the world that could be scarier than the electron app they were replacing
- hirvi74 5mo agoWhy? Just job hop in 12-18 months, and that will be someone else's problem.
- onlyrealcuzzo 5mo agoThey'll just have an LLM translate it to another language...
- djeastm 5mo agoThis happened before AI when a guy wrote a key tool in some random language a decade ago and the rest of us were left to maintain it. We somehow managed.
- ruszki 5mo agoYet, it's not uncommon, that such tools are the reasons to still use DOS, dial-up internet, or frameworks which have more security holes than lines, because they are unmaintained for decades.