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I don't get it. I can't seem to find any reason why they wanted to rewrite it, and that's interesting in and of itself. Given the language change of the past,

I don't get it. I can't seem to find any reason why they wanted to rewrite it, and that's interesting in and of itself. Given the language change of the past, and now a complete re-write, neither of which had any major impact on the end user, I'm wondering if we're not witnessing some sort of infatuation with coding for the sake of coding over there. I can think of a myriad of reasons why one would want to re-write code, but they're certainly not sharing theirs.

portLAN 19y ago
>the old code was essentially two years of hacks and cludges. The new version is much cleaner, and the new back-end is much more malleable. The idea is that once we get caught up with ourselves, the actual new stuff will come pretty quickly.
- aston 19y ago
  +1 for reading TFA. More of that FTW.
- run4yourlives 19y ago
  >the old code was essentially two years of hacks and cludges. That basically describes every piece of software ever written. It's not always a justifiable excuse to re-write the codebase though.