I think so, yes!

And I wouldn't try to implement a "modern" perl backend but start with an attractive JS frontend.

Most importantly I would be capable to do a POC without messing around with the local patch system.

YMMV. (Certainly)

I would be capable to do a POC without messing around with the local patch system

Can you elaborate on that?

I've elaborated many times that we need a Dev environment.

Convincing the gods of new features by wording is often a futile endeavor. Being able to show the POC OTOH is far more effective and less frustrating.

Furthermore did we already see carefully crafted JS POCs fiddled into Nodelet hacks which where mostly ignored by the gods.

Like tobyinks responsive design or my so called wikisyntax, which can be easily adapted to implement BBcode or markdown.

There is also a long-standing vulnerability report including patches for everything which haven't been dealt with.

Cheers Rolf
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