Legacy Software Codebases
Commenters discuss how many software technologies, languages, frameworks, and enterprise codebases are decades old yet still widely used, emphasizing the persistence and relevance of aging tech stacks.
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They probably work with software written 8-9 years ago, though!
You'd be surprised how many enterprises have been basically running the same codebase since the 90s
Prepare to be impressed!All the following are still actively using code that I'd more than 20 years old;Gnu user tools, as used in Gnu Linux. Linux kernel. Pretty much all databases. (sqlite for example is 21 years old). Much of Windows, and Ms office.Not to mention mountains of my own code, still in production. 20 years is nothing in coding terms.Most developrs I know are small or single, and have one or two products they've been working on for over 20 years.
Isnt this tech 20 years old at this point?
Fairly old article. A lot has happened since then with these technologies.
it's already outdated when startups didn't use lisp and freebsd anymore
The language is 19 years old, it's not new.
“half a decade” is practically yesterday in most codebases.
Yea but GCP was state of the art 20 years ago, php+perl was already crufty
That's more like a reminder the functionality and binaries were there for the last 20 years...