[forgingahead]

This never happens in real life....."rewriting software" is the introverted programmer's wet dream because it gives them relevance and the idea of respect. No serious business "rewrites software in something else" once they start to take off.

[procaryote]

You don't do it for fun*, but because the rapid development duck-typed dynamic language you used to get to MVP quickly is not the language you need to keep it working under load and a growing feature set.

It's a terrible and difficult transition that makes you question if the first language was really such a good choice after all, although it did get you where you are right now, which is more than you can say for a bunch of companies trying to do everything future proof from day 0

(* well, some people do, but they don't tend to survive)

[cowsandmilk]

I can point to plenty of companies that have rewritten products at scale. That said, specifically relevant to the article, I believe Shopify and GitHub continue to run Ruby on Rails.

[willsmith72]

shopify is hugely invested in react and even full stack react through react router. still rails is great for the backend of course