> don't want to crash the party > I just see a massive waste of time & effort Kinda seems like you do wanna "crash the party". I disagree that this is a "wast

> don't want to crash the party > I just see a massive waste of time & effort Kinda seems like you do wanna "crash the party". I disagree that this is a "waste of time" of course, the value I see here is manyfold: 1. Learning how to do self-directed learning, managing time, etc 2. Learning, at an expert level, about dozens of complicated (not to mention in-demand) CS subdomains 3. Doing something that nobody has attempted, and few people could realistically accomplish 4. Having fun on the journey of taking a ridiculous idea from conception through to a truly functional implementation 5. Sharing something you've built with the world It is, of course, not everyone's cup of tea, but if someone wants to spend a not insignificant fraction of their life building something unique (and beautiful, in its own way) and sharing it with the world, to the detriment of quite literally nobody else, I support them in their adventure.