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> but because the year and a half i spent reproducing functionality could have been spent adding new features

What would you have used instead?

Doesn't matter much, really, as long as it's something with a big ecosystem.

I assume the original language of the codebase

Thanks I was distracted and didn't get that

yeah in this case it was a ruby/rails/react/angular frankenapp that was very much guided by a big ball of mud pattern.