[petsc-dev] How long?

[Jed Brown]

Rewrites are super risky and the subject of classic articles.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/

(NB: Firefox might not exist today if not for that rewrite.  But they
probably would have done better at retaining market share and thus had
more money for incremental refactoring had they worked incrementally.)

I'm highly skeptical that a rewrite is appropriate for PETSc.  Could a
second implementation language be introduced?  Perhaps, with an
appropriate plan.

"Zhang, Hong via petsc-dev" <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

> Is linux kernel maintainable and extendable? Does anyone want to reimplement linux in Julia?
>
> Hong (Mr.)
>
>> On Mar 11, 2019, at 9:28 PM, Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>   PETSc source code is becoming an unmaintainable, unextendable monstrosity. How long until Julia is mature enough that we can (re)implement PETSc in it?
>> 
>>   Barry
>>