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Bluesky Social is a microblogging social platform being developed in conjunction with the decentralized AT Protocol. Previously invite-only, the flagship Beta app went public in February 2024. All are welcome!

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A COBOL programmer explains that this migration is impossible without catastrophe unless they want to destroy social security. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

Even if the plan it not to touch the COBOL code and replace the whole system with a new one written from scratch, a timeline of several years would be incompetently naive. Proposing to do it in months is just idiotic. [software dev, 40 yrs exp)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

This needs months of PLANING, let alone development, then double the time for testing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You don't need planning when you're Vibe coding 👌

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

skibidi, fam. throw that rizz on 💯

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