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automatic6131 on Oct 10, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years

>I wonder if we shouldn't just regularly redesign our foundations to be more robust and transparent to keep the whole system manageable.

Don't make me link Joel Spolsky's never do a rewrite.

mcv on Oct 10, 2023 [–]

Link to it all you want, but that doesn't make it universally applicable. Do you really think we should still be building on top of Cobol? Almost everything gets rewritten. It's unavoidable, because almost everything eventually becomes unmaintainable.

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