Indeed. The problem with starting over is that anything you start over with is going to be simpler, at first. Thus potentially faster, easier, etc, etc.
Rewrites are hard and costly, which is rarely taken into account. Even just maintaining a competent fork is hard enough.
I think it's probably worth the effort, but I'm not quite sure how you get from A to B without just having some super competent eccentric multi-billionaire finance a series of massive development projects.
> I think it's probably worth the effort, but I'm not quite sure how you get from A to B without just having some super competent eccentric multi-billionaire finance a series of massive development projects.
And Elon Musk is busy doing rockets and electric cars!
Rewrites are hard and costly, which is rarely taken into account. Even just maintaining a competent fork is hard enough.
I think it's probably worth the effort, but I'm not quite sure how you get from A to B without just having some super competent eccentric multi-billionaire finance a series of massive development projects.