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Re:Open Sourcing Our Go Libraries (2014) by thrownaway2424 on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @01:51PM (#8846203)
You don't have to rewrite anything, the old language can still die. If you're writing all your new code in X and your codebase growth is accelerating, the existing code in Y will look less and less relevant over time.
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Re:Open Sourcing Our Go Libraries (2014) by mitchty on Thursday January 08, 2015 @10:51AM (#8856883)
Perhaps, but it doesn't sound at all that the case is all new stuff is go for them.
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