> A shipped app, in a language nobody on the team knew

Great! Let's look back on this not too far in the future.

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.

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.

Yeah that's probably the only thing in the world that could be scarier than the electron app they were replacing

Why? Just job hop in 12-18 months, and that will be someone else's problem.

They'll just have an LLM translate it to another language...