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> What's the urge to reinvent rather than evolve?

young age of developers (average 25-34 years old.), who usually (not always of course) reinvent the wheel because they don't know the past and don't understand the tradeoffs.

Also, it's a way to get attention in this economy of virtue signaling, nobody gives a sh*t if you write a new C++ library that sends rockets into space, it's C++, it's insecure, you should have used Rust.



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