[tonyedgecombe]

Surely that argument is dead once someone has migrated a million lines of code in eight days.

[gregoryl]

Surely that reinforces the argument - there are now a million LOC in a different language, needing stunning amounts of work to validate it actually functions? Writing the code has never been the bottleneck.

[tonyedgecombe]

Writing code was definitely the roadblock in a rewrite like this.