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by uecker·7mo ago·view on hn ↗
I agree. My point was only that this hole can easily be patched in X as well. So the argument was essentially "we do not bother to patch it with X, so we must rewrite X".
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It was my understanding that changing the original codebase to fix it would’ve been involved enough as to warrant a rewrite.
I think this is nonsense.