alt Hacker News> Because value of a project is not in the code produced. It's in the amount of battle-testing that code has seen.
Rel: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
> Because value of a project is not in the code produced. It's in the amount of battle-testing that code has seen.
Rel: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
It's funny, but I think the article is showing it's age. It's no longer true.
In hindsight having automated auto complete rewriting your code base wasn't something on 2000's radar.
Now switching from language to language is much easier. Just for Rust, there was Ladybird and Bun complete rewrite, that ran into zero things that Joel rallied about.