Programming language for GIMP fork's rewrite

[Liu]

On Thursday, 2 July 2020 at 09:36:28 UTC, 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/
>
> -=mike=-

I think rewrites can be valid if you switch from a buggy/verbose 
language like C/C++ to a more modern D/rust. You do more with 
less code and in the long term, you have a more clean code base 
where you can focus on solving the actual problem rather the 
thousands of undefined behaviors, verbosity of C/C++. Now, just 
rewrite a huge C/C++ code base in C/C++ looking for clean up the 
code, that, I think it is going to be a huge massive waste of 
time.