Rewriting Legacy Code Is a Trap. Here’s the Truth.
Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007, but the business world never stopped running on it. The true lock-in of legacy software isn’t the vendor or the syntax—it’s the invisible, 20-year-old business logic that has been debugged and depended on. Rewriting that logic is the real gamble, making the backward-looking move the most risk-averse path forward.