AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by nuancebydefault on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:05AM (#50365004)

I get your drift but... This sounds a bit like advocating "why not ditch all progamming languages and build some super language that makes no exploits possible". While we are at it, ditch the Von Neumann architecture. Or saying "why not ditch all natural languages in favor of Esperanto".

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by _ph_ on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:27AM (#50365246)

No, we don't need the "perfect language". But we definitely need to switch to better methods - which were available for decades already - more quickly. There are plenty of memory-safe languages. They have been available for decades. And here we are, a huge amount of servers affected by a memory bug, in especially badly written C. There are probably many more fundamental design bugs in PHP.

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by FranOntanaya on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:41AM (#50368159)

PHP itself is "memory safe", you are criticizing that it runs on C but that's a C problem.

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