Comment by jll29
6 days ago
It's probably okay to solve one problem at a time: first solve the "free open source browser, developed from the Web standard specs" problem in an established language (C++), and then the "reimplement all of part of it in a more suitable (safer, higher productivity) language - yet to be devised - problem.
And Andreas Kling already proved the naysayers wrong when he showd that a new operating system and Web browser can be written entirely from scratch, the former not even using any standard libraries; so beware when you are inclined to say 'not feasible'.
Maybe? I feel like there's been lots of efforts to migrate large C++ codebases over the years, and few actually complete the migration. Heck, Google is even making Carbon to try to solve this.
migrating any large project is going to be billions of dollars worth of labor. Language isn't a large factor in that cost, you can save few tens of millions at most with a better language.
Can you give me some reasoning behind this statement ("language isn't a large factor in the cost of migrating a large project")?
I'm struggling to think of a larger factor
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