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If it were written in nodejs, perhaps. Code rots at different rates in different languages.

Code in fresh languages tends to rot fast, but old UNIX software is preserved with C salt ;)

One of the best, unexpected, wordplay jokes I've seen on hackernews. Bravo.

I do not think node was a thing 15 years ago

Just shy by 1 year - NodeJS was written 14 years ago in 2009: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node.js#History