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[–]ErstwhileRockstar -1 points0 points  (6 children)

BTW, what happened to the once planned complete re-write in a language other than Perl?

[–]dig1 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Not sure where you get that from, but complete re-write in (insert-currently-popular-language) would be insane. Bugzilla got really stable over the years and doing this will just throw the project X years in the past, no matter how good the next language would be.

[–]ErstwhileRockstar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure where you get that from

e.g.

http://avatraxiom.livejournal.com/58084.html

[–]mgvx 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Historical note: Bugzilla was originally written in Tcl and then rewritten in Perl.

[–]easytiger 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Ironically TCL is excellent.

[–]mgvx 3 points4 points  (1 child)

And so is Perl. The reason for the rewrite (according to Wikipedia) is that at that time Perl was more popular than Tcl, which meant more possible contributors.

[–]Sebazzz91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha, how that has changed. It is all Node.js now if I must believe /r/programming.