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Could we please stop this "shouldn't be handrolled" or "don't write your own X". It only results in pushing some false idea that you have to be special to do these things, or that innovation is impossible. I can't believe we went from "don't roll your own crypto" to a plain thing like "don't roll your own url state management". What? That is obviously exactly what you should do to get a deeper understanding of the technologies you're working with. I think the only people I hear say this is because they have some agenda in pushing developers to be "tool users" instead of "problem solvers".

It's not that you shouldn't say "there be dragons" or suggest existing solutions, but that's doable without saying you shouldn't do X at all...




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