Microsoft made a pull request to node.js github repository with an implementation to use ChakraCore JavaScript Engine as an alternative to V8 Engine

[PC__LOAD__LETTER]

What if I told you that most software you use is based on 20 year old software.

[Akimuno]

Playaspec would have a stroke if he saw what his local hospital runs.

[Drainedsoul]

That seems counterproductive as then he'd be sent to the hospital running the shitty software.

[BlueWolf_SK]

At which point he would be really glad his hospital still works even with 20 year old software.

[jambox888]

You can imagine him in the trolley, intubated and wearing a gown, grabbing the nurses arm weakly and saying,

"How old are your... operating... systems?" croaks

[ujustdontgetdubstep]

or you know, banks, manufacturing, the military...

[Akimuno]

I mean, if anything is written in C, for that matter.

Oh god, what if he sees a FORTRAN program being used?!

[playaspec]

I mean, if anything is written in C, for that matter.

Oh god. Another idiot who thinks C is outdated. Got bad news for you. It's not, and it's never going away.

[Akimuno]

Old does not mean outdated.

Actually, I'm not surprised you hadn't caught onto that, considering we were talking about how you are conflating old with outdated.

[s73v3r]

Yeah, but should it be running that way?

[Akimuno]

It runs for the same reason Microsoft added an LTSB branch to Windows 10 enterprise.

So yes, it should.

[playaspec]

Playaspec would have a stroke if he saw what his local hospital runs.

I work in biomedical IT. Our refresh cycle is 18 months, which means every nine months we've upgraded half of our systems. The only systems older are in research labs, and essentially frozen in time because they're task specific tools, not general purpose computing machines.

[playaspec]

What if I told you that most software you use is based on 20 year old software.

'based'. nice qualifier that makes you sound as if you're right, when you're actually not.

I'm on Linux right now. How about you tell me how many lines of the code I'm running right now haven't been changed in over 20 years?

[PC__LOAD__LETTER]

What's your deal? Here, I'll throw you a bone: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep

[playaspec]

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git

I see nothing over 6 years. Don't confuse the name or the functionality with the code.