Topic

Code migration and rewrites

Moving a working codebase to a different language, framework or platform, either incrementally alongside the original or as a full rebuild.

Current clusters

build3 publishers

Shopify's Helix feeds its native rewrite to agents one screen at a time

Six engineers shipped a fully native Shop app in 12 weeks, but the first attempt at handing the React Native code to a model produced what Shopify's engineering director called slop. Helix chunks each screen instead.

Publishers:dev.tosimonwillison.netthenewstack.io

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption55
Hype gap+22
Incentives68
Confidence62