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I've seen too many people think this move will be a total disaster.

I think it'll be a very bumpy ride but ultimately the team will succeed.

Besides "liberal sabotage" is a ready made retort for any mishaps along the way.

It will obviously be a disaster.

Do you honestly believe it’s possible to rebuild ANY code base with millions of lines of code, to another language in MONTHS?

It won’t be a ”bumpy road”. It will be a total failure.

I believe there is certainly some hubris involved in their projected timeline but I think at least part of that is due to a belief that we have much, much better tooling today than was available to teams that attempted this sort of thing back in the day.

”Some hubris”. Ok, let’s disagree to disagree.

I will loudly point out that the USAF contracted to replace COBOL with Java, attaining 90% reduction in TCO. It’s time for a friendly competition.

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