How many wildly successful finance firms are running COBOL somewhere on the backend? How many successful healthcare systems are running MUMPS? Bad languages don't seem to kill companies, just make disgruntled developers and bad products.

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zb3 7 months ago | parent [-]

So I should clarify - I was referring to new code. If the old code already works it might not be worth rewriting it.

	▲	jenadine 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		Old code need maintenance, bugfixes and new features. One does not rewrite their stack from scratch. But many companies are definitely writing new projects in rust rather than C++, including Big Tech.