I somewhat agree... However, there is also something to be said for rewriting work. There's the concept of "plan to throw it away"[0] I think a lot of these pr

I somewhat agree... However, there is also something to be said for rewriting work. There's the concept of "plan to throw it away"[0] I think a lot of these projects start because people are just trying to learn. Then they share them and get built upon. You then have an ever increasing amount of technical debt, eventually inspiring others to write a simpler version and then that becomes the defacto and so it continues... I think my favorite example of just stupid stuff that keeps getting propagated is the Date type in javascript - the month field starts with "0", but the day field starts at "1"[1]. Like what is with that? Even with everyone contributing to Javascript that stupid thing still exists because you can't break the internet to fix it (ask the Python community how changing a lot of syntax works out - although Python wasn't even that bad). That's why people write new stuff, because they want to make things simpler. Not really something to complain about IMO. The unique stuff I learned is probably just these four languages: BASIC, C, C++, Python - I learned it in that order and now I can pretty much do w.e. language I need to use. Because all frameworks are based off the same stuff. Go is easy, Javascript - no problem!, I do full-stack work and data science in my day job it's really not hard at all. All the frameworks make it even easier. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month [1] http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_dates.asp http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_dates.asp