Comment by customguy

> That's what 99% of software is. Even active-active distributed systems are glue and exist only to bridge ephemeral infrastructure. Everything will eventually be thrown out and rewritten.

> Nobody lauds the half-century old banking code written in COBOL. They want it ripped out and replaced.

So? That's true for actual plumbing, too. That changes nothing about the fundamental fact that a pipe that achieves a specific thing with N gram of materials and N meters of pipe length is better than something that is 100x times heavier and goes around the block several times just because why not.

> The code isn't the sand, it's the sandcastle.

Same difference. It makes just as little sense to say "the sand the sandcastle is made of doesn't matter, only the sandcastle does."

> But none of the code that runs either of those things will likely be running or capable of running.

Obviously. Who claimed otherwise?