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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by 72deluxe on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @08:49AM (#10655239)
Why rewrite it in another language? It isn't currently broken.

Things that are not broken do not need rewriting.

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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by acdha on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @10:10AM (#10655836)
> Why rewrite it in another language? It isn't currently broken.

You need to support that claim. The people who actually work on Firefox have a list of reasons why they made this decision:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-dev...

Why are we to believe that you are better qualified to make that call?

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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by orik on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @08:56AM (#10655279)
Maybe they decided there's too much technical debt and they can't make changes to the browser as fast as they wish they could in the current framework?

Not 'broken' in a traditional sense but still a valid reason to rewrite.

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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by toyg on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @09:01AM (#10655325)
Yeah, but there is a trade-off involved. If you spend 3 years rewriting your toolkit, then the time you will eventually save on further changes has to offset those 3 years, and that's very hard for most projects.
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