> we shouldn’t be carrying the burden of our own inferior versions of things that already exist Why would people building software today need to do that? There

> we shouldn’t be carrying the burden of our own inferior versions of things that already exist Why would people building software today need to do that? There are excellent, “batteries included” polished versions of plenty of the things we need to build software: package managers, developer tools, machine learning libraries with the latest algorithms, testing & CI/CD tooling, UI components, web servers, databases, etc. There’s even entire applications that are FOSS, if you want to build a new tool there’s nothing stopping you from adding whatever you want to a pre built FOSS application like LibreOffice, Calibre, etc.