In a science fiction story I once read — I can’t for the life of me recall which one — a spaceship’s electronics were overloaded and massively damaged by some kind of energy weapon. The ship got away, but it was crippled. Fortunately, the crew managed to repair enough of systems to limp to an inhabited planet by reprogramming some less important components to replace the vital ones.

That wouldn’t be possible with today’s electronics, but with something like this, it might be possible soon.