Was it worth deleting 270k lines of C++ code?

by stackbutterflowon 11/20/22, 1:14 PMwith 1 comments
by JoeAltmaieron 11/20/22, 3:32 PM

Often re-writing suffers from "It's bigger and was more expensive, but it has different bugs!"

That is, nothing good. So many ways it can go wrong - second-system syndrome (RIP Fred Brooks!), missing features, paralysis during planning, fail to launch and on and on.