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I can relate, for sure, but it's not like they'd written a 50 million line operating system in ASP.

At the point you've decide to build a terrible new internal-only language just to maintain a single bug-tracking app codebase ... perhaps you aren't been doing an accurate cost/benefit analysis?



Literally every single person on this thread agrees: if you're going to rewrite code by hand, you wouldn't deploy something like Wasabi. Wasabi exists entirely to facilitate not rewriting.

You've also got several current and former FC'ers on this thread, all? of whom don't like Wasabi as a language, all saying that from a pure cost/benefit perspective, Wasabi paid off.


Wasabi is a case study in technical debt. This entire thread is a case study in I wasn't there, but I know more about it than the people who were.


And possibly of Greenspun's Tenth Rule. (Wasabi, not the thread.)


s/but/because




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