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.
  • @pohart@programming.devEnglish
    3•26 days ago

    Do you have reason to think that? Organizations that use mainframes keep them up-to-date in my experience.

    • @digipheonix@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1•26 days ago

      Chatty government contractors. I imagine some parts are updated but at least 2 years ago there was still a load of legacy hardware kicking for them to speak of