you could do it as a personal side project without merging it into the mainline and you might learn one of three things: - handrolled is better and the framewo

you could do it as a personal side project without merging it into the mainline and you might learn one of three things: - handrolled is better and the framework stinks - there are some disadvantages to the framework, but after doing it all by hand you also understand how it makes a lot of things easier - it's a tradeoff that largely amounts to which kinds of problems you're personally more willing to put up with (quite likely outcome) in any case you would learn something