Programming language for GIMP fork's rewrite

[claptrap]

On Thursday, 2 July 2020 at 16:09:10 UTC, Liu wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 July 2020 at 09:36:28 UTC, Mike James wrote:
>> https://forum.dlang.org/post/hinhcixficvfjwidaknc@forum.dlang.org
>>
>> -=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++.

Yes if you can do the rewrite a bit at a time and make the code 
more maintainable, more open to improvement and modification in 
the future. So it's less a rewrite more a migration with future 
proofing in mind.

But you have to be careful it's not "this code sucks so we'll 
rewrite it in D and then it wont suck". It's perfectly feasible 
to rewrite it from the ground up and it'll still suck.