Programming language for GIMP fork's rewrite

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/3/20 12:32 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 7/2/20 5:36 AM, Mike James wrote:
>> https://forum.dlang.org/post/hinhcixficvfjwidaknc@forum.dlang.org
>>
>> On Sunday, 1 September 2019 at 18:57:07 UTC, Kamran wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> People who forked GIMP, a popular open source image editor are 
>>> discussing on which language to choose for their rewrite at [1] and 
>>> they are considering D. Maybe some of you can help them out.
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse/issues/70
>>
>> Maybe they need to read...
>>
>> https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ 
> 
> 
> Interesting piece. However, I think there are a few example where 
> complete rewrites have been successful though. Two come to mind - eggs 
> and hphp. Also I wonder how much of various parts of various Windows 
> versions have been rewrites. For example I recall Windows NT was 
> considered quite a different codebase from Windows 95.

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