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by flohofwoe 1775 days ago
Maybe, but "nothing" is still much better than making things worse (first, a rewrite usually needs to be bug-by-bug compatible, so you have almost no leeway to "improve" the product, second, new code has new bugs that need to be found and fixed, don't underestimate the amount of work that has gone into a 50 years old code base that still does its job).