[grumdan]

One point is that the rewrite itself costs developer time that could be spent on something else.

Aside from that, rewriting something in C++ based on code in a higher-level language with better abstractions might cost additional developer time, maintainability, and quality.

[staticassertion]

> One point is that the rewrite itself costs developer time that could be spent on something else.

But they're already advocating for a rewrite, just within the same language.

[stcredzero]

I thought someone was also advocating for rewriting something in a managed language with GC to a language like Rust.