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by adwn 3368 days ago
> (2) time has weeded out most of the bad bugs to the point that the old codebase will be substantially more stable than anything new no matter what language you would write it in.

This seems to assume that the codebase is stable and in maintainance mode. However, the reality for the vast majority of open-source projects is that they're either being actively developed, adding new code and new bugs, or they're abandoned.