"Life's not fair, but the root password helps."
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Query FailedAshkan (@Aphrodite3D)
Friday, December 2, 2011

Don't rewrite a software and you have to deal with the same mess each day, every day, watching it getting worse and worse by the day, until production literally grinds to a halt. In such a code base, there would eventually come a time that we, as software developers, would be ever-increasingly spending more and more time hacking around to fix a bug or get the new feature/improvement play *nicely* with the rest of the codebase. When your code is a mess, debugging suffers, readability suffers, productivity suffers, scalability suffers, performance suffers, hell even the business itself suffers as it slowly starts to loose its competitive edge since adding new features or fixing newly found bugs (not to mention that messy code is prone to producing more bugs in the first place) takes more and more resources, be it time or money. You are loosing an all grounds. Period. Moral of the story: Not re-writing software sucks. Rewriting software also sucks. We either have to choose between the lesser of two evil when it's too late, or be smart from the get go and write overall clean software and strive to keep it in good shape. That's the lesson that software developers and business owners must learn. That's the lesson that must be tune to their ears. A lesson, which as a result of short-sightedness, they seem to be so fervently resist to acknowledge. Hacks will always come back to bite us in the ass. That's the golden rule. Rewriting is evil, sure, but it's not the root of all evil. Hacking is the root of all evil. Hacking is the reason why re-writes eventually become so devilishly tempting, and as long as we so ceaselessly insist on making the same mistake over and over again we're doomed to live the same fucking hell over and over again.

Hoof! Had to take this off my chest!

- Peace
xoofx
Friday, December 2, 2011

Indeed!

Though, as your story implies, there is a noticeable difference between rewrite a whole application from scratch then rewrite part of the code from scratch.
If the original application is using components/interfaces layers between parts of the code, It is always easier to plugin-in a new underlying implem, sometimes by tweaking the interface to reflect the new features into other parts of the application, with a manageable impact, without having to break the whole code, as you probably did for your Framework3.
The question of rewrite from scratch arise when the paradigm of the whole design of the application is completely changing: meaning that external interfaces are changing as well as the whole internal plumbing, interfaces, workflows, datas... etc. In the end, this is not a rewrite but a new engineering of a solution.
In the case of AMD OpenGL story, as the external interface was obviously not changing, the rewrite of such a critical component was clearly not a good move. It would have been more careful to identify key part of the component to rewrite, and start incrementally from here.
Humus
Friday, November 18, 2011

Nah, fortunately posts like that are quicker to delete than for someone to type up.
Mike
Friday, November 18, 2011

Such a cute one, isn't he!

Congrats and nest wishes on this magnificent occasion (I've actually had 3 of them in the first, and 2 more in the second, generation ). Please don't take too close to your heart those dirty words above -- they are just perversion gone loose due to anonymity and impunity which are IMHO the worst manifestations of WWW's realities today.
Thomas
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Sweet!

for me the intresting part was how to get along with my wife after our son was born. Pretty tough
at the beginnig.. =)
RazzBuzz
Monday, November 7, 2011

Cute face.

Congrats.
fmoreira
Friday, November 4, 2011

Congratulations Humus!
Guess we'll see more candies and hearts in your demos from now on
Daniel
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Congratulations!
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