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Would it be viable to get the other another dev trained in this other language? As has been stated before, having a single point of failure is not good. Also -

Would it be viable to get the other another dev trained in this other language? As has been stated before, having a single point of failure is not good. Also - are there other reasons why you'd want to rewrite that code? If it's well written in a language you're comfortable with supporting, I guess you can take on another expert dev in that language as you're growing.

shandsaker 16y ago
Yes that would be possible - sorry didn't mean to leave that out of option 1. To be honest in the time available it would improve our bottle neck, but not get rid of it. Option 2 would certainly produce the fastest development setup. I have realised that in trying not to cloud the decision by telling everyone what the tech was, I may have done you all a disservice by not giving enough information! So here it is: The existing tech is Adobe Flex. Provides great RIA, but not good for iPhone/iPad. It makes up only the front end of the app, with everything else php based. The new tech would be to re-write the front end in HTML/JS, leaving the backend php as is. So another reason for rewriting the code is that we will likely want to dump flex at some point.