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by carterparks 4620 days ago
$100/hr x 500 hours = $50,0000

$100/hr is a very conservative estimate for an hourly rate for a senior level Ruby engineer that can read and understand shell code and implement clean, well documented code.

500 hours also seems very reasonable given that they'd be rewriting 20,000 lines of Bash. Not an easy task.