[pier25]

> but because the year and a half i spent reproducing functionality could have been spent adding new features

What would you have used instead?

[Scarbutt]

Doesn't matter much, really, as long as it's something with a big ecosystem.

[tomtheelder]

I assume the original language of the codebase

[pier25]

Thanks I was distracted and didn't get that

[karmajunkie]

yeah in this case it was a ruby/rails/react/angular frankenapp that was very much guided by a big ball of mud pattern.