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This highlights a bigger problem: why should you have to reimplement the same idea hundreds of times if what you already want to do already exists?
by Retra 12y ago
This highlights a bigger problem: why should you have to reimplement the same idea hundreds of times if what you already want to do already exists?
- Zikes 12y agoI don't look at it as reinventing the wheel, any more than one would consider the advent of new languages and technologies a reinvention. They're iterations on the concept, bringing that concept into a new environment to be further refined or built upon. Other threads in this discussion bring up Finagle's shortcomings, partly due to certain features not being addressed or included by Finagle's authors due to them being low priority. In that case what you want may not already exist, but may work as inspiration for another incarnation.
- simonw 12y agoI once saw Douglas Crockford, when asked about JSON in comparison to XML, say "The great thing about reinventing the wheel is that sometimes you get a round one".