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To put it in terms people here understand: suppose you have a big legacy code base written in C. It works fine but it's not perfect. And every time a bug comes
by gydfi 10y ago
To put it in terms people here understand: suppose you have a big legacy code base written in C. It works fine but it's not perfect. And every time a bug comes up, there's a bunch of guys who say "hey, let's just rewrite the whole thing in Scala!"
No, we're not rewriting the whole code base on a production system just because you think Scala is neat. The existing code is fundamentally fine, let's focus on this problem today.
- iainmerrick 10y agoBut what if the existing code is terrible? (I still agree that "rewrite in Scala!" is a bad answer, but some kind of extensive refactoring or rewrite may be called for.)