The Lindy effect in software(clemsau.com) |
The Lindy effect in software(clemsau.com) |
Complete with rewriting everything in the trendy memory safe quasi-portable language that is faster than (poorly written) C in your personal microbenchmarks.
All the job postings I see are for C++ (Annoyingly. Fortran is better). Or Python obviously.
But by rewriting software, even in the same language we can learn from past mistakes and experiences and create better and more maintainable software.
In the context of free software it is usually also a method to be able to sideline part of the existing user or developer community, which you can not easily justify when making changes the existing project but can be achieved with a rewrite. But the former leads to a honest view of the trade-offs and consequences where the rewrite is a toxic power move.