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		scarface74 on Feb 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales tow... Code rarely last decades without maintenance and complete rewrites over time - unless you’re the government.

treis on Feb 21, 2020 | [–]

Plenty of enterprises are running decades old code that powers their core business.

edoceo on Feb 21, 2020 | [–]

I maintain some LOB PHP5 apps, that started as PHP3 - these internal systems are over 10yr old. Just chugging along, producing value for the business. But yeah, pretty rare stuff, and everything I see is small/internal.

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