[jbernsteiniv]

We still have banks running code even older than that. Do you want banks to take a large risk and potentially impact millions of people because "old code is bad code"? There is a time for an upgrade where things make sense. Not everything needs to be re-developed. We discovered fire a very long time ago. I don't think we need to retire fire because its so ancient.

[eddd-ddde]

I wholly believe it's impossible to get out of our "local minimum" without re developing from zero at some point.

So many of our technologies are just there because they solve some problem we created ourselves.

[Aerbil313]

I don't think it's possible at all. Entertain the thought. If not for anything for social reasons. A hard fork of the entire ecosystem is the only way. Every single piece of software we write today depends on every other. It's not a tree like commonly thought, it's a cyclic graph.