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Was it worth deleting 270k lines of C++ code?

by stackbutterflow on 11/20/22, 1:14 PM with 1 comments

  • by JoeAltmaier on 11/20/22, 3:32 PM

    Often re-writing suffers from "It's bigger and was more expensive, but it has different bugs!"

    That is, nothing good. So many ways it can go wrong - second-system syndrome (RIP Fred Brooks!), missing features, paralysis during planning, fail to launch and on and on.