[bollix]

hardly anything on the internet is "new". We're all just rehashing things that existed on the net in the 90s, doing them slightly better.

[laumars]

s/better/differently/

I wouldn't say all of the re-invention has been for the better.

[bollix]

Yeah agreed. Once a new fashion comes out, people feel the need to rewrite everything in that language/framework etc.

Imagine how much more productive we could be if we stopped reimplementing the wheel every time a new fashion comes around...