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People will do anything to avoid reading and maintaining someone else's code. If that means rewriting in native and someone (usually VC's) is paying for it so b
by npalli 1y ago
People will do anything to avoid reading and maintaining someone else's code. If that means rewriting in native and someone (usually VC's) is paying for it so be it. If you think working in existing TS/JS code is hard, wait until someone hands you their 100k+ line Rust code and asks you to make changes. In five years, another big shift to rewrite and change everything.
- drodgers 1y agoMaking changes to huge rust projects is quite easy. For a substantial alteration, you make your change, the compiler tells you the 100 problems it caused, and you fix them all (~50% auto fix, 30% Claude/Codex, 20% manual), then the program probably does the thing. Architecting the original 100kloc program well requires skill, but that effort is heavily front loaded.