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by WesolyKubeczek 959 days ago
While I don't negate your experience and I genuinely anticipate that this project is going to rediscover some pain, there's something to be said about the fact that we don't have to replicate the life work of Newton, Leibniz, Maxwell, etc to really "get" classical physics. It fits now into the high school curriculum, and if you pass it, you can be fairly decent at it; with a little additional effort, you can get real freaking good at what took those people their whole freaking lifetimes.

This is because we can stand on those giants' shoulders and have the benefit of hindsight and not have to also repeat each and every of their blunders, and have better technology and learning methodology to boot.

So I presume if you yourself wanted to rewrite sudo from the first principles, you, with all your experience and knowledge already there, would spend a lot less time doing it, and it would be way cleaner and simpler.

So while I'm not dunking on your effort and experience, I'm just pointing out that it's not impossible to take your experience and turn it into something better over a smaller timespan.