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Old Code Gets Younger Every Year. The threat of decaying technology looms, by Marianne Bellotti (medium.com)
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Marianne Belotti has worked at large institutions with modernizing decades-old code bases. She is author of the book "Kill it with Fire" [review].

From that book's author bio:

Marianne Bellotti has worked as a software engineer for over 15 years. She built data infrastructure for the United Nations to help humanitarian organizations share crisis data worldwide and tackled some of the oldest and most complicated computer systems in the world as part of United States Digital Service. At Auth0 she ran Platform Services, a portfolio that included shared services, untrusted code execution, and developer tools. Currently she runs Identity and Access Control at Rebellion Defense. She can be found on most social networks under the handle bellmar.

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[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Oh, and in my opinoin, the huge reliance on libraries and large dependency chains is also a potential large problem for infrastructure written in Rust.