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by no-such-address 2708 days ago
When you say sustainable, do you mean, is it possible to train another generation of engineers to take over the maintenance and development of the software?

I wonder about software that has a secondary or supporting role in the ecosystem. Working on them does not provide the level of career opportunities that seem to be available from working on core distributed computing or machine learning platforms. Apparently the default is that they will be abandoned in place.