Comment by arkensaw

I don't know about Japan - I vaguely recall reading that most buildings over there are built with wood (even the big ones) and that this is historically something to do with rebuilding after Tsunamis and earthquakes.

Buildings in most other countries in the world ARE built to last forever, and often renovated, changed, extended and modified long after the incept date until, because needs change, and destroying them to start over is complete overkill (Although some people do these "large scale refactors" - they're usually rich).

> It's just a metter of time someone rewrites a small to medium size application from one language to another using the previous app as the "spec".

I have no doubt of this. I'm sure it's happening already. But the whole point of long term stable applications is that they are tried and tested. A port done in an afternoon by an LLM might be great, but you can't know if it has problems until it has withstood the test of time.