On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 08:36:21AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: > You could sit down today and re-implement everything in, say, C++, and > it would be relatively straightforward, and while the result would not > share any of JOSM's codebase, it would still encapsulate all the > experience and brainpower that has flown into JOSM development over the > years.
true in principle but you would need a protable GUI that doesn't suck or you end up programming for at least 3 platforms with 3 sets of bugs, 3 sets of dependencies etc. Richard