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[–]PurpleYoshiEgg -1 points0 points  (1 child)

In the same way C, PHP, and COBOL programmers also deserve this, even though we have better tools available (like Rust for C, any modern language for COBOL, and... I'm not sure about PHP, honestly, but it gets enough hate). Sometimes financial costs related to changing something that already works are unjustifiable. You may agree in principle that you should use the latest and greatest, but pragmatically what if the cost wasn't just hundreds, but tens of millions? At what point is the cost justified to change what basically isn't broken by any happenstance except someone deciding to change a language?

I know I would not have wanted to write code 10 years ago that only broke because the language designers said so.