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This happened before AI when a guy wrote a key tool in some random language a decade ago and the rest of us were left to maintain it. We somehow managed.
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Yet, it's not uncommon, that such tools are the reasons to still use DOS, dial-up internet, or frameworks which have more security holes than lines, because they are unmaintained for decades.
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Yeah that's probably the only thing in the world that could be scarier than the electron app they were replacing
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Why? Just job hop in 12-18 months, and that will be someone else's problem.
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They'll just have an LLM translate it to another language...
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