The truth on the software industry is: 1) Nobody makes software with a plan on when to replace it. They just assume the time will come and they'll know in the f

The truth on the software industry is: 1) Nobody makes software with a plan on when to replace it. They just assume the time will come and they'll know in the future. 2) Rewriting software is usually a bad idea, although there are some success cases of rewritten software. This might not seem too relevant on people working on the startup scene, but for people working in companies (like I used to too) this has a huge impact. If you don't replace your technology stack in 5 years, it will then have 10, 15, 20 years. What do you do now with 20 years * # programmers effort in code which is stuck in a technology 20 years old? This is actually a hard problem to solve.