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@oakey66@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month ago

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

www.wired.com

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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

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@oakey66@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month ago
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Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
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    They’re not going to use Java, it’s going to be typescript.

    • @lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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      Or Rust

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        You think those script kiddies know Rust?

        • @lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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          No, but they want to seem cool

          And they’ll use Grok to write the code anyway 😂

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        Rust is not a language I’d use for financial apps, but it’s not a bad language. So I doubt that they’d use it. Musk is of a generation where he’d probably tell them to use PHP. Or if he listens to the twenty-something bros around him, maybe it’d be Dart, which is another decent language that’s not well suited to the problem domain.

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