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Sure you can attempt a rewrite! But you must make sure that you know what are getting into. It is not an easy thing to do, but once the rewrite is done your liv

• arethuza 12y ago
  Having had rewrites of large projects go spectacularly well and also spectacularly badly, I suspect one factor to be mindful about is if the rewrite facilitates the "second-system effect" - I've had that happen where the rewrite of a messy but successful suddenly allows the introduction of lots of cool features you've wanted to add for ages and you actually end up with a "simplified" system that is actually a lot more complex than the original. NB I've only had one project go badly wrong that way and I guess it was a useful learning experience :-)