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by zzo38computer 395 days ago
> But for complicated solutions where open source alternatives already exist, its a hard argument to spend your time reinventing it unless just for learning purposes.

Even if the open source alternatives already exist, does not necessarily mean that they do what you want them to do. In some cases they can be fixed to do what you need (since it is open source, that is an advantage), but sometimes it cannot really be done without rewriting it and making a new one.