The rewrite in JavaScript will be mixture of porting and redesign. Some parts of the Pascal-sources are relatively new and can almost be translated as is. But t

The rewrite in JavaScript will be mixture of porting and redesign. Some parts of the Pascal-sources are relatively new and can almost be translated as is. But the older the Pascal-source is, the more a redesign is a better idea. The old parts of the sources are in VERY bad shape. This project started more than 15 years ago on a much, MUCH smaller scale (about 2 million pages compared to 320 million now). Some design-choices simply aren't valid anymore. Also the use of JS has the advantage that it will make the project attractive to a lot more programmers than staying with Pascal could achieve. The current implementation keeps the search-index as one big thing. I will split that up into many smaller pieces. That way it can run multi-threaded or even on multiple servers. Currently queries are running single-threaded. Another shortcoming is that building an index involves several manual steps. I want to automate that.