2024-06-19 18:35 UTC
@jeremywadhams@tenforward.social @samir@mastodon.functional.computer a lot of programming is creating something which already exists just in a slightly different combination. That doesn't make it pointless. If only, gaining understanding is already extremely useful, often reinventing is the only way to get understanding
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@jeremywadhams@tenforward.social 2024-06-20 15:32
@gerbrand@fosstodon.org Oh absolutely, I wouldn't discourage a developer from reimplementing tic-tac-toe or building a blog CMS. And I wouldn't stop someone whose vision of a better mousetrap was 95% conventional thinking, but that 5% novelty is a banger! But it's discouraging how many meetings I've been in that are "competitor X has feature Y, we need a shallow clone of Y bodged into our product immediately!"