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As a government programmer, let me assure you that we're so goddamn far behind modern tech we've only just stopped supporting IE6.
Comforting and Terrifying.
Comferrifying?
Terriforting?
In all seriousness we make sure things work with modern browsers, but you're never going to find a government agency requiring the latest and most advanced tech. For one thing, nothing in government moves fast enough to make that even remotely possible.
Also there's no way I'm gonna learn how to use some new piece of tech every few months. They don't pay us nearly enough for that kind of effort.
EDIT: Oh but I wasn't kidding about dropping support for IE6 recently. It was like a year or so ago, not last week, but still.
Comfifying
Terriforting in this case
Which government?
Yes
All of them
State of Nevada in my case, but I've worked with a lot of other state and federal agencies. Pretty much all of them are like that. At best their legislatures will get a wild hair and spend a bunch of money on some off-the-shelf "latest and greatest" product (not really, it's usually something like Salesforce) and they'll be top of the line for a few years, but when it comes to actually keeping it upgraded and cutting edge that never happens.