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I'm going out on a limb and guess that either it wasn't a particularly large codebase and/or it didn't have many dependencies and/or you had more than enough re

I'm going out on a limb and guess that either it wasn't a particularly large codebase and/or it didn't have many dependencies and/or you had more than enough resources so you could do the rewrite while at the same time providing support for the current version. In the case of Nextcloud, my educated guess is that none of the above conditions is true.

thayne 5y ago
It was a pretty large codebase, but we did have enough resources to do the rewrite while maintaining the current version. Sort of. It was migrated incrementally, and basically whenever we needed to fix a bug or add a feature to something that was still in the PHP part, we would migrate that specific functionality over to the new language. It did take several years, but since it was done incrementally, we got value from it along the way.