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Re:I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own by sam0x17 on Sunday April 21, 2024 @05:55PM (#40109579)
Sometimes it's easier to start from scratch than figure out how some storied monolith works
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Re:I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own by xtracto on Monday April 22, 2024 @10:06AM (#40114527)
This article by Joel Spolsky has some good advice related to that: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

Tldr: avoid rewriting software. Most likely the gigantic monolith got big because because of all the business logic encoded in there.

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