[mharroun]

(Not disagreeing and is somewhat off the article topic to the article but wanted to counter point as engineers love to find reasons to rebuild in new stuff)

So you could also argue for that savings it may not be worth it. 100k is less then 1 engineer in most places (especially including TOTAL hire costs like equipment, office space, benefits, ect).

You can also argue it is much harder to hire golang engineers (or invest time/money into training engineers in go) so that that savings may not be worth it depending on the time it takes to rewrite plus the gamble of failure.

Also you need to ask could those engineers doing the rewrite have been working on up-sell features or other products that could make more money?

Would the investors (especial new growth oriented investors) care more about a increase in margins or a even larger multiple in ARR?