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epicdev on April 21, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Visiting Us

MUMPS is the infamous one that pretty much everyone is at least trained in, but Epic is 99.9% done replacing old VB6 clients with C#.NET + Typescript/React. There's also developers working with iOS and Android development, and Python and SQL for data science and business intelligence.

undefuser on April 22, 2025 [–]

Is MUMPS still being used in any significant capacity at the company?

epicdev on April 22, 2025 | | [–]

Yes. The core database is programmed with MUMPS. There are extensive libraries and tooling built around it to ease pain points.

solsane on April 22, 2025 | | [–]

It’s still the primary backend language. We moved away from VB, not MUMPS.

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