In the year 2000, Joel Spolsky (founder of Stack Overflow) wrote a famous article titled…
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In the year 2000, Joel Spolsky (founder of Stack Overflow) wrote a famous article titled “Things You Should Never Do, Part I.” In it, he talks about how rewriting your code from scratch is the single worst strategic mistake any software company can make. However, times have changed. The cost of writing software is dropping exponentially and that has changed the math entirely on if it is worth rewriting your codebase. For instance, this year Anthropic’s Jarred Sumner ( @jarredsumner ) rewrote Bun in Rust in 11 days leading to many performance and correctness benefits. Likewise, Stephen Toub (
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