I had lunch this week with some former coworkers.

When I'd started working with them it was on the 20 year old C++ engine that ran everything.

Even at that time there was large team 'rewriting' it in Java. That team was dissolved about 2 years later.

During the course of my employment two more large teams were spun up to do a rewrite and then came crashing down after a year or two.

I hadn't seen my coworkers for about 7 years. Naturally they were still working on the C++ code. Naturally they'd seen two more rewrite teams come and go while I'd been gone.

I'm not sure why I'm bringing this up......