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Often, it's politically possible to achieve a complete rewrite by switching to another language, while staying in the same language would cause pressure to reus
by _pmf_ 9y ago
Often, it's politically possible to achieve a complete rewrite by switching to another language, while staying in the same language would cause pressure to reuse parts of the old system or refactor the old system. Which is a bit sad.
- swsieber 9y agoThat's a good point - a could top level comment could be: "We switched from x to y. It was important because it justified rewriting the thing, which improved performance. Would have loved to rewrite it in x, but support just wasn't there."