ConfPad

JavaScript is the new COBOL widely hated but hugely successful, JS defines populist programming in the 21st century much as COBOL did in the punchcard era. But COBOL never really went away -- there are COBOL programs still running our banks and civic institutions half a century after its heyday. Many JS apps will have similar lifespans, yet we struggle with the accumulated cruft of a two year-old codebase; how will we handle a hundred years? Let's examine how software can grow and adapt over the decades, so we can write code that won't be a burden to future generations.