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Ask Slashdot: What's New In Legacy Languages?

Posted by timothy on from the why-in-my-day-we-didn't-have-feet dept.

First time accepted submitter liquiddark writes "I was listening to a younger coworker talk to someone the other day about legacy technologies, and he mentioned .NET as a specific example. It got me thinking — what technologies are passing from the upstart and/or mainstream phases into the world of legacy technology? What tech are you working with now that you hope to retire in the next few years? What will you replace it with?"

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  1. I'd replace Java with Perl, for one. by AlexanderKarelas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perl rocks (Mojolicious, AnyEvent, Moose)

  2. Why .Net? by Richard_at_work · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why was .Net mentioned as a legacy technology? Its actively developed, has a decent community, and is widely used - apart from some poor articles and conclusions that were jumped to here on /. There is no reason to consider .Net a legacy technology.

    What is more likely is that the person was referring to projects that are stuck on specific versions in maintenance hell, which can happen with any language - Ive been stuck with VB.Net 2.0 WebForms projects, while at the same time I've been using MVC 4 and .Net 4.0. One I would consider a legacy project, the other not, but both use the same line of tech.