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@oakey66@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months 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

www.wired.com

@oakey66@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months 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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    “…but sir, we only know Node.js…”

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      • @NeonKnight52@lemmy.ca
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        Node.js is a fantastic tool for web servers. Its event loop allows it to rival much lower-level languages in performance while remaining easy to write and maintain. JavaScript has been the most popular programming language for nearly a decade.

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          Well you need static types I assume, for code safety and all that.

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