Actually, an awful lot of the "we rewrote X in language Y" stories on the internet have this as the true story, even if they don't admit it. (The LinkedIn mobi

Actually, an awful lot of the "we rewrote X in language Y" stories on the internet have this as the true story, even if they don't admit it. (The LinkedIn mobile rewrite from Ruby to Node was like this. The official line was all "here's how to kick it in Node", the truth was the original implementation was single threaded across all users.) That said, I'll happily read this story over and over again, because it tends to provide insight in what works and what doesn't.