Personally I think that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater for most use cases. You could rephrase my comment as "if you're already committed to reinvent

Personally I think that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater for most use cases. You could rephrase my comment as "if you're already committed to reinventing half of libc's wheels, this one is not really any harder or more awkward than most, but if you're not aiming for that overall goal then reinventing just this one wheel is a bad plan" if you like.