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A nice example of why even "small rewrites" seem to take decades.
by eej71 2y ago
A nice example of why even "small rewrites" seem to take decades.
- zamadatix 2y agoI think the time taken has less to do with the size of the rewrite and more to do with highlighting Microsoft's level of interest (from a business perspective, not an ideological one) in working on the control panel. E.g. in the same time period Microsoft has migrated and rewritten their enterprise chat platform multiple times across different architectures, frontends, and backends. That's not a point that large rewrites always only take a couple of years, it's a point that they were really interested in evolving their enterprise chat offering.
- LegitShady 2y agoI'm not sure if its about "small rewrites" so much as slowly changing so that there's less all at once rejection and pushback. It's change management.
- skydhash 2y agoYou start to do a rewrite and then discover that the old design was the right one. But then you double down on those because "metrics" which oddly favors the team/company interests.