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Comment on Ask HN: Reinventing the wheel, good or bad?

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"Go not to the elves for counsel, for the will tell you both yea and nay." - Tokien

It's impossible to say if it's a good thing or a bad thing, since so much of it depends on the programmers, the business, and the libraries you are replacing.

Fun side project, maybe write your own. You are Solo or tiny team, maybe write your own You know why exsisting libraries have problems, write your own. You have plenty of customers, and need to scale beyond what other people are doing, maybe write your own.

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