Why 150 years olds are still getting social security benefits

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Why 150 years olds are still getting social security benefits - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Yeah that’s not the defense you think it is.
Could you elaborate on why?
You shouldn’t be using cobol in 2025

so the huge legacy codebase should be ported to…

and who’s gonna do that? You?

This hasn’t been done because no one can do it. It’s because the government sucks at this stuff

It hasn’t been done because that’s a great works project that’s on a scale you’re woefully ignorant to (this is an assumption on my part based on what I can grok of you based on your comments here).

I assure you there is a bevy of skilled developers who would love to modernize the systems they work on but the cost and level of effort is beyond what is politically viable.

If you changed your perspective from “it’s awful and bad and always will be” to “it’s awful and bad and we can make it better, how can I help” things will improve for everyone.

I didn’t say it wasn’t big

Mate, from reading the comments of this no-brains, he or she doesn’t doesn’t even know how to program in a professional capacity, much less have even the slightest clue of the scope of such a project.

That one is literally a mindless Trump/Elon fan wading into waters way, WAY, WAY beyond his depth.