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> I could not find in the post anything saying that they are going to abandon the current ESLint and let it rot while they write a new version from scratch. On
by WesolyKubeczek 4y ago
> I could not find in the post anything saying that they are going to abandon the current ESLint and let it rot while they write a new version from scratch.
One thing that stands out is that they haven’t grown twice the manpower with institutional knowledge overnight. You have to put a lot of effort into your rewrite, and you have to fix bugs in the existing thing.
- nine_k 4y agoThey can avoid building most new features in the old codebase (because they belong to the new codebase), and limit the work on the old codebase to bug-fixing. This looks realistic.