I think this argument is more about utilizing minimalism in software design than always writing-it-yourself. IMHO many of us have seem to favor a form of featur

I think this argument is more about utilizing minimalism in software design than always writing-it-yourself. IMHO many of us have seem to favor a form of feature maximalism, and perhaps we should be tempering our ambitions design-wise. Too much software has far too large a surface area.