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by raincole 1123 days ago
I'd prefer this approach, rather than hastily rewriting a stable codebase in the coolest trendy language.

9 years is not that long for a programming language. PG's (in)famous eassy on Python Paradox [1] was written in 2004. By the time Python was 13 years old and it was still a "cool kid's language".

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html