On: Ask HN: I don't enjoy being a CTO. Now what?

[reboog711]

Over the years; I have found very few valid business reasons to re-write a code base that is still supporting the relevant business.

As a CTO, there is a good chance the poster would not be materially involved in such an effort.

From a business perspective; something that works is more important than something that is well architected.

[amelius → reboog711]

Tell that to the Facebook team who recently rewrote their entire front end codebase using React.

[bbcbasic → amelius]

I wonder, did they really rewrite or refactor. Did they chuck out every single last line of code at once, or transitioned it slowly? Do they no legacy code left at all?

[a13n → amelius]

I was also at FB when they hit File > New Project on their iOS app which IIRC drives more revenue than anything else at the company.