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In my experience, big and important rewrites only can happen after someone has been maintaining a code base a long time and they can spend many months or years
by pa7ch 5y ago
In my experience, big and important rewrites only can happen after someone has been maintaining a code base a long time and they can spend many months or years mulling over simplifying architectural changes not just for change. Often for company software at least I was frustrated with the pace that they shuffle you around projects.
- throwaway81523 5y agoIt's not the rewrite per se--it's squashing all the bugs that the rewrite introduces. That is why big C programs are so scary. Because it's unusually easy to introduce such bugs.