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Re:Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon by franczesko on Friday September 02, 2022 @05:42PM (#32696043)
"It is ugly and clunky because that's what _works_"

It's a legacy code nightmare, but customers are used to it and this is #1 reason why it will not be changed anytime soon.

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Re:Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon by lupire on Saturday September 03, 2022 @03:57PM (#32705504)
It's been ugly forever, and there have been several wholesale rewrites (C++ -> Perl -> Java, and JavaScript and whatever is in native apps)
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