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> But long before the rewrite project achieve feature parity with the original, it is already marred by the same issues that motivated the rewrite. I think the

> But long before the rewrite project achieve feature parity with the original, it is already marred by the same issues that motivated the rewrite. I think there are definitely counter-examples. Can you imagine using an OS in 2020 based on incremental improvements in Mac OS System 9, or Windows ME. Or browsing using a browser based on incremental improvements in Netscape 4.7?

BoiledCabbage 6y ago
But again in the Windows ME vs WinNT/Windows2000 case it wasn't a re-write. It was improving an existing product and using it in a consumer space.
- sgerenser 6y ago
  But Windows NT itself was a rewrite not an evolution of Windows 3.1.
  - wolfgke 6y ago
    Windows NT wasn't a rewrite of Windows 3.1, but an attempt of Microsoft to create a modern workstation OS that is in a completely different product category than DOS/Windows 3.1.
goto11 6y ago
These are hypotheticals, but isn't the Blink engine incremental improvements all the way back to KHTML? It has been more successful than Mozilla.