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by chinpokomon 4036 days ago
Are you not making an assumption about your own code then? The strength of open software is that you don't have to rely on one person to have solved everything. I consider myself to be a good developer, better than most for some areas, but I know there are others who have written better code for other areas.

I prefer not to reinvent the wheel when I know my implementation won't be any better, or if I were able to make a better wheel, that will be time spent that I wasn't reinventing the carriage.