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by antirez 6292 days ago
My guess is that there are multiple factors:

* Not invented here syndrome: 10x coder may code small things himself that many times is faster then learning other stuff.

* Selection of the tools to use: it will use Ruby instead of Java, for example, and for a reason. In general he'll try to figure the fastest path to solve the problem so will try a lot less.