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Re:Bongo Cat by Accacin on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:02AM (#24868521)
Yeah, no native tools ever get written in different languages and frameworks. Or is it only not acceptable when Front End developers do it?

Personally I've never known anyone do this for any other reason but educational reasons. When I wanted to learn React, I copied other websites in React. I do similar things when I'm learning Golang, or C, or any other language I'm interested in.

Re:Bongo Cat by coddle-hark on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:38AM (#24868803)
I’m not sure what the go/C equivalent of “Ugh, you’re using jQuery? Time for a rewrite” is. It happens a lot more in frontend land than in the rest of the developer ecosystem.
Re:Bongo Cat by webmaven on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:02AM (#24869573)
> I’m not sure what the go/C equivalent of “Ugh, you’re using jQuery? Time for a rewrite” is.

Observed "in the wild":

C » C++

C++ » C++ w. STL

C++ » C#

VB » VB.NET

WinForms » WPF » Silverlight » UWP

Edited to add:

Java EJBs » Java Servlets » Java Spring

C++ » Java » C#

Re:Bongo Cat by slingnow on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:20AM (#24869784)
You're describing switching to a different language. There's plenty of that going around no matter what language you're using. But I don't recall once seeing anyone decide to rewrite something in the equivalent of a different C "framework". There's certainly a lot less of that outside of frontend development.
Re:Bongo Cat by Kerrick on Friday October 23, 2020 @03:17PM (#24872821)
That's because if you want to write for the Web Platform, you haven't been able to switch languages; you were largely stuck with JavaScript for decades.

Contrast that to writing for the Windows Platform--you could easily choose one of many languages.

Re:Bongo Cat by webmaven on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:52AM (#24870092)
Several of the examples I listed are frameworks or the equivalent.
Re:Bongo Cat by boogies on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:04AM (#24869036)
“Ugh, you’re using C? Time for a Rust rewrite.”