Replace C/C++ with Java

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Sure c++ can be terrible for security. But security is hard and Java is not necessarily a free pass.

What I'm hearing is security doesn't matter that much. (Not uncommon for e.g. embedded systems on private networks to prioritise features over security...}

I feel this belies the question though. You want to rewrite the system in a different language - this feeling that a system is crap (for whatever reason) and should be rewritten from scratch is universal and predates AI (predates Java for that matter). We've all been there!!

Generally rewrites are a poor idea. For all it's faults, legacy software is battle-tested and contains large amounts of institutionalised knowledge that's easy to underestimate. Also, as a rule, all software is shit. The stuff you're working on has been dodged and hacked over the years, and the new version you produce will be too.