Re:Unix system programming in OCaml
by mercurial on Friday February 22, 2013 @09:21AM
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It's more a question of company priority and customer demands. Try rewriting a few hundred thousand lines of code currently in production at several customers, who all want modifications. Unless you have enough manpower to dedicate a team to maintenance, that's not going to happen. Especially if the competition keeps churning out new features.
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...if I think about it, the few companies that did rewrite their codebase and benefited from this were the ones that were their own customers of their code as JS and Twitter both fall in here. You're right, it's probably not worth it if you're selling "software as a product", but when you are basically an saas business or even better, you're doing in-house dev, and everything runs on your servers, you are free to even run simultaneously multiple version of your thing for different tasks.