alt Hacker NewsNearly 26 years ago! https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
What's different today really is the LLMs and coding agents. The reason to never rewrite in another language is that it requires you to stop everything else for months or even years. Stopping for two weeks is a lot less likely to kill your project.
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oblio • today at 3:04 PM
He's still right if you don't have good automated testing and you lost most of the original developers (or you don't have other seniors ceva familiar with the domain).
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> What's different today really is the LLMs and coding agents.
In Ladybird's case, tests they could rely upon.