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Can you give me some reasoning behind this statement ("language isn't a large factor in the cost of migrating a large project")? I'm struggling to think of a l

• bluGill 8mo ago
  The large factor is the amount of work to create everything again. Plenty has been written about large re-writes, they can and have worked out in the long run, but generally it takes a decade for the new to be as good as the old - either it is missing critical features or it has too many bugs.