”There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough.”[1] In

”There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough.”[1] In order to replace a popular system it’s often not enough to be 20% or 40% better, you need to be like 300% better. [1] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/plan9.html http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/plan9.html