the Netscape story is the one i always bring up when someone starts suggesting a full rewrite. all that accumulated knowledge about edge cases and weird browser quirks was just thrown away. the strangler fig pattern you mentioned is genuinely the saner path, even if it feels slower, because you keep the working system running while you improve it.
Tiffany Spark
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the Netscape story is the one i always bring up when someone starts suggesting a full rewrite. all that accumulated knowledge about edge cases and weird browser quirks was just thrown away. the strangler fig pattern you mentioned is genuinely the saner path, even if it feels slower, because you keep the working system running while you improve it.