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Back in the day, Netscape did a full rewrite between major versions. There's a Spolsky blog post about it: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.
by franciscoap 14y ago
Back in the day, Netscape did a full rewrite between major versions. There's a Spolsky blog post about it: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Very interesting read.
- dagw 14y agoThis is totally different. They're not re-writing their application from scratch, but replacing a core component with a popular, well tested and widely support one.
- pornel 14y agoThey are ditching their UI toolkit and dev tools as well. It does look like a complete rewrite, maybe with copy&paste of some old features like gestures.
- franciscoap 14y agoIndeed it is -- GP only mentioned he didn't know any example of a large amount of code being thrown out, so I provided one.
- DeepDuh 14y agoThanks for the link, it's indeed a good read.