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

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It's inevitable.

Technology keeps reinventing itself and usually needs a different model wheel than the ones produced earlier. Sometimes it could be an old forgotten wheel re-imagined on the new technology or maybe some slick shiny wheel that starts a fad.

Until we have technology more universally stable (processor, platform, etc) we will be reinventing wheels.

For your case, did you try the other methods? did they work? can yours do better? If you can prove progress/advancement its good, if you just want to do it, might not be so good (at least while at work).

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