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by RaftPeople 526 days ago
> I saw one big rewrite from scratch. It was a multi-year disaster, but ended up working.

90% of large software system replacements/rewrites are disasters. The size and complexity of the task is rarely well understood.

The number of people that have the proper experience to guide something like that to success is relatively small because they happen relatively rarely.