I don't get it. I can't seem to find any reason why they wanted to rewrite it, and that's interesting in and of itself.
Given the language change of the past, and now a complete re-write, neither of which had any major impact on the end user, I'm wondering if we're not witnessing some sort of infatuation with coding for the sake of coding over there.
I can think of a myriad of reasons why one would want to re-write code, but they're certainly not sharing theirs.
>the old code was essentially two years of hacks and cludges.
The new version is much cleaner, and the new back-end is much more malleable. The idea is that once we get caught up with ourselves, the actual new stuff will come pretty quickly.
definitely, they may (should) be looking at what they will need back-end wise for the next few years. if building on a dodgy base is too risky, you have to build the better foundation. they're not a start-up anymore, it's a new set of challenges
Given the language change of the past, and now a complete re-write, neither of which had any major impact on the end user, I'm wondering if we're not witnessing some sort of infatuation with coding for the sake of coding over there.
I can think of a myriad of reasons why one would want to re-write code, but they're certainly not sharing theirs.