When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop

1 · Slack · July 22, 2019, 4:16 p.m.
by Mark Christian and Johnny RodgersA new version of Slack is rolling out for our desktop customers, built from the ground up to be faster, more efficient, and easier to work on.Photo by Caleb George on UnsplashConventional wisdom holds that you should never rewrite your code from scratch, and that’s good advice. Time spent rewriting something that already works is time that won’t be spent making our customers working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. And running code knows thin...