Microsoft killed FoxPro in 25 Lines of metal

Well, feeling rather bamboozled after clicking the link to discover that the article has fuckall to do with Unreal Engine, the popular game engine. There is always a tension between being agile and being safe, doubly so for governments. It would be cool if a client/server database could be transparently shoehorned in to it.

Tested it in the last few years. I cut my teeth professionally with it on ETL processes. It moved data around like nobodies business! Can LLM access FoxPro programmatically, or is the file format easily parsable? Most of FoxPro apps are likely fairly simple CRUD apps. It would serve a single purpose much better than xCode does. Excellent, maybe Anthropic can use it to fix Claude Code Desktop kicking me back to my childhood with FoxPro books on my dad's bookshelf when I was a child. Thanks for that, necromancer.

There is always a tension between being agile and being safe, doubly so for governments. It would be trivial for a modern AI to transcode it to a web based client server solution.