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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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

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

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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

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.
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  Or Rust
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    You think those script kiddies know Rust?
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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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