[cpursley]

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

[gregors]

Remember when they rewrote their app and blogged about it? I do!

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/04/11/our-net-strategy/

[selcuka]

It was a (slow) migration, though, not a rewrite from scratch. They kept shipping software.

[gregors]

Exactly my point. The way the vast majority of rewrites happen.

[karmajunkie]

yep, that’s the right way to do it.

[Aeolun]

I shouldn’t, but all these posts read like distant history to me with Fog Creek gone.

[amenghra]

As if source code rusted except in this case, Netscape's descendant did rust -- in a different way.