alt Hacker NewsTurns out "its just an experiment, you all are overreacting" was just a lie to damp criticism.
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Well I've got egg on my face.
I am in that post, defending bun.
I thought for sure the peanut gallery was overreacting. Especially when the concern was absurd - because who would do such an insance thing? Like, at the time I legitimately thought 'no way a project switches over in a few months'. Even as an absurd hypothetical, I couldn't even imagine the prospect of it being done in a matter of days.
Feeling really confused right now.
It seems it was an experiment at that moment, and that it went well? I do hope they release it under 2.x though, cannot imagine how a 1M LoC can break in so many ways, especially if what xiphias says is true:
The experiment might have turned out well, or the author might have spent enough time to bring it to a place they was comfortable.
Frustration moves mountains, I don't think this rewrite was done lightly.
Does anything from that comment say that there was 0% chance the experiment wouldn't be merged into main? I see "very high chance all this code gets thrown out completely", which just means the low chance of it not being thrown out has occurred.
I'm no believer... 9 days later... Lessssssgoooooooo wooooooooo <sunglasses and rave>
Well it was 9 days ago, at the time they were not confident, but maybe the results were insanely good.
"We haven’t committed to rewriting. There’s a very high chance all this code gets thrown out completely."
> was just a lie to damp criticism.
Citation needed. Couldn't it just as easily have been one person being as suspicious of the task as everyone else seemed to be?
Merging a complete rewrite in another language in 9 days seems insane to me. Maybe I'm just too cautious but with something like this I'd split off as a separate binary and get some heavy use customers involved as testers first to see if it causes any unforeseen problems before slowly expanding it out.
I'd want to be pretty damn confident it won't cause any regressions before sunsetting the original codebase in favor of this one.