At what point does the cost of tech migration outweigh the cost of training people on a more and more specialist paid language just to not have to migrate to a memory safe higher level language like C or Go or Rust or Lua.

Didn't say python because oh sweet Jesus the slowdown alone would grind the global economy to a halt if we were running all our banking software on Python XD

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

C and memory safety, name a more iconic duo /s

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Something something better tools too shoot yourself in the foot with something something

[–] Tosti@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

The trick will be reverse engineering a lot of the mechanics. Also some old systems control hardware that still works and will be replaced when the hardware is replaced.

[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Didn’t say python because oh sweet Jesus the slowdown alone would grind the global economy to a halt if we were running all our banking software on Python XD

ah so we just need to persuade banks to switch to python. Noted