Comment on A Year to The DayparentComments−icebraining12yIf you're going to complain that it's not actually reinventing, then can I point out that Ghost is not a wheel, either?It's an idiom with a known meaning. It doesn't have to be literally true.−coldtea12yYes, but the problem is that it's not a good idiom either, for the reasons explained:It's based on a broken metaphor, and it doesn't reflect how things work on software.They could have at least said "they made just another blog engine".
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If you're going to complain that it's not actually reinventing, then can I point out that Ghost is not a wheel, either?
It's an idiom with a known meaning. It doesn't have to be literally true.
Yes, but the problem is that it's not a good idiom either, for the reasons explained:
It's based on a broken metaphor, and it doesn't reflect how things work on software.
They could have at least said "they made just another blog engine".