[compacct27]

The big rewrite. Risky even on manageable codebases, and the leftovers never seem to fully go away. Who wants to score points on re-writing a tucked-away settings page several years into these?

I've seen so many attempts at these you'd think we'd have a framework for rewriting codebases. We don't. Automated codemods require a consistency that few adhered to. The code patterns evolved so much over time, it's like looking at tree rings.

We're basically putting code in boxes, re-arranging the boxes, and rightfully saying some arrangements are more efficient. How come we haven't found a better way? Automations operate at the code level, but not at the box level.