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Maybe controversial but I think original authors should be able to rewrite, i.e. they can learn from previous mistakes and incorporate those lessons into the re

• Cthulhu_ 6y ago
  Oh yeah they definitely should, after all they will also have a lot of domain knowledge which new developers have to relearn (I'm in that situation myself at the moment). But, they need to have actually learned since then. They need to prove that if given another shot, they can do better. I've been able to do that, we built an application in BackboneJS, then Angular became big; we used that in a separate application, then decided to gradually rewrite the original in Angular (we were able to ship it to customers during the rewrite, rewriting things on a per-page basis without doing much with the design). It took a lot longer than the original, but also because new features were added and we were doing things much neater, with proper unit tests and the like. We learned that we had underestimated the complexity of a single page application, that it's not just a matter of "show whatever the back-end is returning so make sure the back-end is tested, front-end doesn't really matter much".