The loss of human time in big corporations is immense. Coordination overhead and losses due to information logistics problems. I'd imagine a project like this w

The loss of human time in big corporations is immense. Coordination overhead and losses due to information logistics problems. I'd imagine a project like this with no dependencies on the rest of the stack can be run efficiently. From a bang per buck point of view it might beat other means (rewrite, using multiple languages, redoing ops to run on cheaper backbone) by a huge factor. I get your sunk cost objection, but it's a bit depressing to hear people worry about someone doing genuinely useful work. Nobody wants to take responsibility or get their hands dirty. There's still plenty of low-hanging fruit in both language implementations and databases. The world today is just mountains upon mountains of bullshit.