Re:Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
by barrkel on Sunday July 16, 2017 @03:14PM
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For big rewrites, I like to see someone who's been burned by a failed rewrite at the helm. They'll be much more aware of the pros and cons, and at far less risk of underestimating the effort involved, or the value of working code.
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Re:Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust
by mschaef on Sunday July 16, 2017 @05:36PM
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That's part of why I made the comment I did. 15 years ago, I was starting a small little MicroISV. Rather than focus on the product, I focused on building a Scheme interpreter I was going to use to build the product. It was a lot of fun, and I learned a great deal that has stuck with me today. But it didn't result in a better product and it didn't result in a successful business.
(I'm not saying remacs is the same thing by any means, but the relationship between effort expended and the type of value realized is something I've become more attuned to the older I get. Maybe it's a mild mid-life crisis, but I'm pretty cognizant these days that there's an upper bound on the length of time we have available.)