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I don’t know why you got downvotes. I cut my programming teeth on Carbon and worked my way through several ports of side projects, and you are absolutely right.
by matheweis 8y ago
I don’t know why you got downvotes. I cut my programming teeth on Carbon and worked my way through several ports of side projects, and you are absolutely right.
Moreover a complete rewrite doesn’t exclude any truly unique parts of the old codebase from being ported into the modern one.
- qubex 8y agoHe might be getting downvoted for cultural reasons... in much of continental Europe knocking down and rebuilding a look-alike house from scratch is tantamount to vandalism. (I voted him up, but the analogy did make me squirm.)
- mikestew 8y agoMore likely, a cargo cult reaction based on a “Netscape went out of business because of a rewrite” blog post from Joel Spolsky fifteen years ago.