You know, we'd really be better off as a community if people started building on other peoples' work more. A lot of us scratch our own itches and "reinvent the wheel" from scratch again and again. This is maybe good for individuals (claim moar glory), but bad for the community.
As someone most guilty of this, by chance I just happened to see @debasishg retweeted a Richard Feynman quote offering an alternative motivation to glory: "That which I cannot create I do not understand."
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Sure, valid for learning. But at some point, if we only reimplement everything from scratch again & again, promoting the reimpl as The One True Way (TM), eventually it becomes destabilizing to the whole community. We get stuck in local minima & limit the growth of the community
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Hmmm, I'd assume there's also the problem that almost nothing "only does one thing", so there's little consensus on what things should actually be done by something, and since that impacts design, performance, scalability, resilience, now there are N valid impls. :S
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