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It would be good to remember Joel did a complete rewrite and blogged about it.

The idea isn't that you can't rewrite in a new language, it's that want to do bit by bit. Don't just to the big bang thing.

A 25 year old article that might as well have been written yesterday, clearly stood the test of time.

It does rot though, as an apparent effect of everything else changing around it.

This is why I won't build on anybody else's platform ever again. From now on I'm building on boring tech I can deploy on any machine.

The irony is that Joel’s “FogBugz” product eventually got rewritten many years later.

Not ironic.

Capable people know the constraints (and perhaps write good articles about them) and they know when to break those rules.

Good engineering is making the right compromises.