@jonny @chris_evelyn In my case the efficiency argument is tilted somewhat here, because there were significant sunk costs in the original code base. The original sponsors were AT&T, Intel, NSF, Microsoft, Vyatta and a defence contractor called CenGen. The whole thing had significant tech debt anyway, but when it got spun out from ICSI and took VC money, it itself got shitcanned just after the sub-prime mortgage crisis by the very same VCs.