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TS is currently written in Python, depending on a technically EOL version of the discord.py library. It has grown to a massive scale, and provides all of the functionality that is critical for the server, but has some downsides.
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- The codebase is not documented very well, which makes changes to the core system difficult.
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- Python suffers from performance issues that have proven be meaningful at the scale of the server (they have been addressed)
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- The migration to a new discord.py version is proving to be extremely troublesome
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However, sticking with the system we currently definitely offers some pros:
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- It functions and is largely bug free, proving stable enough for our use case, with the reliability proving to be mostly dependent on the host.
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- Eff is contributing, however the level at which he will end up contributing to the project is uncertain
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- Once totally 'cleaned up', sticking with TS may be perfectly acceptable
Rewriting TS offers some pros:
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- We can document it as we go and decide on design patterns and practices to stick to before implementation begins
- We evaluate the scale that TS needs to fit, and design according to that
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- We can switch to a language that may prove to be more performant/versatile, should we decide discord.py and python are not the best tool for our needs
