Why is there so much automatic disrespect for companies using older tech?
It seems like there are a lot of companies that people won't even consider because they're not using the latest buzzword framework or have legacy code to maintain, but many of those companies are much more mature and have more technical talent than companies that exist to put dog noses on people's faces. (Hint: you don't get to have legacy code unless you're successful in the first place) For example I get a lot of shit from friends for Epic still using VB6 and M(UMPS) but M is a great language that gets a lot of unjustified hate and Chronicles is an extremely performant and easy-to-use DB that I'd expect to see a decent amount of adoption of if Epic ever open sourced it. VB6, yeah it's unsupported but it still works after over 20 years and we're already more than 30% done migrating all that code to a modern web stack based on ASP.NET. Let me know if your AngularJS app still works in 5 years. And despite anyone's complaining about any of this, Epic is still considered the best EMR by pretty much everyone in the industry. We're basically the Microsoft of healthcare. Just shows that you don't have to have tons of buzzwords to have good tech.
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O man epic has the worst UX. So much so that whole businesses have popped up around training people to use it so doctors don’t have to.
Yep. It was the worst trash to run in a remote hosted environment. Required constant resolution, no way to adapt it. Needed too many low level hacks to support in VM. How are people's healthcare decisions based on trash software like this?
ASP isn’t old. Folks haven’t seen our build test system in some legacy teams...
People hate old tech because if I put VB6 dev on my resume my value goes down. If you want to keep attracting top talent you have to have a reasonably up to date stack.
Guess who has two thumbs and custom dialect of Pascal in production? Get off my lawn.
oh my Pascal... that goes into my heart.
Is that why we still can’t send each other money by direct deposit?
COBOL devs can make bank. They are retiring like crazy and a lot of big businesses still run a lot of COBOL on the MF. I don't want to do it but it's a great job for the right person.
Epic uses VB6 lol
Old tech kept people on moon, doesn't mean we still have to use it to moon, new tech is making old tech so absolete, new tech is more efficient and reliable and can be supported long-term !! Making it cheaper..... I bet the money spent on epic like .001 percent can now be spent with modern frame work and can beat your company product..... May be there is a startup out there doing it.....
There sure are! ... and then you start hearing about information breaches because they don't give two fucks about keeping your info safe
Hahaha and more leaks !!
“Let me know if your AngularJS app still works in 5 years” hahahahaha you win.. i do hope apps built in go or rust will last
Modern web stack based on ASP.NET? guess we are living in different worlds
I feel like the only people that complain about using old tech are people that know very little outside of their “buzzword framework”.
These are the same people who were "senior front-end engineer" last week and now "senior block chain engineer".
Lmao