Re:Textmate 2 and why you should never rewrite your code
by dasil003 on Thursday August 09, 2012 @07:05PM
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Well there was also the many-years development of Copland that ultimately failed and precipitated the purchase of NeXT just to get a decent OS.
It's hard to say whether Copland was a rewrite or a refactoring, but what is indisputable is that the root architectural decisions of Mac OS were a dead-end.
They actually had to go beyond a rewrite to build something completely new and different, and then retrofit an emulator onto it to support the old system.
It's hard to say whether Copland was a rewrite or a refactoring, but what is indisputable is that the root architectural decisions of Mac OS were a dead-end.
They actually had to go beyond a rewrite to build something completely new and different, and then retrofit an emulator onto it to support the old system.