Comment by lbriner | Hacker News Reader

Comment by lbriner | Hacker News Reader

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I agree. It's like when MS tell everyone just to "upgrade to dotnet 6" or 7 or whatever!

Most of us don't have the funding, skills, time, priority to rewrite all of our old web forms apps even if we wanted to. Who is going to pay to rewrite the app that only earns us $10K a year?

Even if we did decide that Rust is great, do we immediately expect our C++ senior devs to produce the same quality code in a language they have only just learned? Are we going to recruit some confident youngsters who possibly know Rust but haven't been burned enough times to be pragmatic when implementing it in the wild. Do we want to rely on a new language that ticks lots of boxes but also lacks the understanding/support and battle-testedness of C++?

>Most of us don't have the funding, skills, time, priority to rewrite all of our old web forms apps even if we wanted to. Who is going to pay to rewrite the app that only earns us $10K a year?

He's not suggesting rewriting anything. He explicitly said "it's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++" (emphasis mine)

C/C++ isn't going away, old C/C++ things can remain as old C/C++ things.

>I agree. It's like when MS tell everyone just to "upgrade to dotnet 6" or 7 or whatever!

The amount of global manhours MS is throwing down the drain by constantly ending support for their versions must be absolutely staggering. Updates are often far from trivial, and they expect everyone to keep up with their fast upgrades and tiny support windows? Long term support is only 3 years, are you kidding me?

> Updates are often far from trivial

No, they are actually trivial starting from 3.1/5/6 exactly because of the work they have put in.

That's great for those already there. For those of us still partially stuck on .Net Framework it is anything but trivial.

And sure, upgrading from .Net 5 to 6 was trivial, but do you really anticipate it will now finally remain stable for eternity? Give it two or three minor versions and they'll have come up with something else to break 90% of your dependencies.

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