It’s better to port cppbuilder with ui code to Mfc.that’s what we did at last when we were absolutely done with it. As a fellow developer who’d been in this situation before ,my advice would be to start doing it now
It would be prudent to include some data to substantiate your insinuation that some non white non European programmers did the Boeing MCAS code. The 9$ per hour wage maybe less than that of a burger flipper in the USA, but the cost of living is vastly different.Being an engineer , if you are ignoring this significant parameter then we definitely know one source of the issue .Maybe you are not an engineer but a fine arts major who “learned” coding by yourself.