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I don’t want to sound smartass but building an identical clone of an existing application is very fast and often totally automated. That’s what your compiler ch

I don’t want to sound smartass but building an identical clone of an existing application is very fast and often totally automated. That’s what your compiler chain does.

sriku 6y ago
At the risk of sounding like another, it can be simpler than that - just install the already compiled software. In a sense, the thing about composing software using "microservices" is about "install it and get going".
TeMPOraL 6y ago
Parent wrote "functionally identical", not "identical".
TuringTest 6y ago
What does the compiler do if you start "from scratch", i.e., without any source code?
username90 6y ago
Change the criteria that you should rewrite it in another framework and the point still stands. You already have a perfect specification in the existing code, no unknowns at all, just implement it. Yet it still takes months or years.
- PeterisP 6y ago
  A good physical analogy is the historical Soviet recreation of USA B-29 Superfortress as Tu-4, based on copying all the parts (based on 4 captured aircraft), but needing to rework to the metric standards (i.e. so wherever you have, for example, 1/4 inch i.e. 6.35mm sheet metal or fasteners or whatever, you have to pick 6 or 7mm instead (because your "different framework" doesn't supply 1/4 inch stuff), which changes the weight distribution and structural integrity, which requires additional tweaks). You're making a functional copy, still took more a year just for the designs. The same with other physical objects - as long as the underlying framework or supply chain changes, it tends to require re-engineering.
- invalidOrTaken 6y ago
  A very interesting post on this topic: https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/2018-07-23-datascript-as-a-lingua-franca-for-domain-modeling.html https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/2018-07-23-datascript-a...

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I don’t want to sound smartass but building an identical clone of an existing application is very fast and often totally automated. That’s what your compiler ch

by krisoft 6y ago

I don’t want to sound smartass but building an identical clone of an existing application is very fast and often totally automated. That’s what your compiler chain does.

sriku 6y ago
At the risk of sounding like another, it can be simpler than that - just install the already compiled software. In a sense, the thing about composing software using "microservices" is about "install it and get going".
TeMPOraL 6y ago
Parent wrote "functionally identical", not "identical".
TuringTest 6y ago
What does the compiler do if you start "from scratch", i.e., without any source code?
username90 6y ago
Change the criteria that you should rewrite it in another framework and the point still stands. You already have a perfect specification in the existing code, no unknowns at all, just implement it. Yet it still takes months or years.
- PeterisP 6y ago
  A good physical analogy is the historical Soviet recreation of USA B-29 Superfortress as Tu-4, based on copying all the parts (based on 4 captured aircraft), but needing to rework to the metric standards (i.e. so wherever you have, for example, 1/4 inch i.e. 6.35mm sheet metal or fasteners or whatever, you have to pick 6 or 7mm instead (because your "different framework" doesn't supply 1/4 inch stuff), which changes the weight distribution and structural integrity, which requires additional tweaks). You're making a functional copy, still took more a year just for the designs. The same with other physical objects - as long as the underlying framework or supply chain changes, it tends to require re-engineering.
- invalidOrTaken 6y ago
  A very interesting post on this topic: https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/2018-07-23-datascript-as-a-lingua-franca-for-domain-modeling.html https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/2018-07-23-datascript-a...