📅 Original date posted:2011-07-11
🗒️ Summary of this message: The suggestion is to rewrite the code from scratch, inspired by the old code, rather than moving functional code around. Check out BitCoinJ for a fresh implementation.
📝 Original message:> My overall suggestion is to begin a complete rewrite, inspired by the old
> code rather than moving a lot of "known to be somehow functional" around.
This essay is old but still relevant, I think:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Despite that, there are efforts to write a fresh implementation. For
example, BitCoinJ:
http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/
It is not a complete implementation. It's targeting the "simplified
payment verification" mode as a first base, and is mostly intended for
mobile phones today as that's a niche the current codebase can't meet.
In the (very) long run, it may evolve into a full node.
> Hopefully I did not hurt someone's feelings.
The code was written by Satoshi who is long gone, and I doubt he would
care much for this type of list anyway. He was a do-er rather than a
talker.
Mike Hearn [ARCHIVE] /
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2023-06-07 02:04:37
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