Guillermo Rauch on when (and when not) to reinvent the wheel

just use open source but aren't many of those great open source libraries actually reinventions of the wheel i mean don't isn't that how we progress sure we could get into that that that could be a new finish that could be an infinite you know what i've been saying recently i really stand by this is in my mind the introduction of the idea of a component as a primitive together with functions classes strings etc feels to me very fundamental it feels to me like when we invented

atomic theory in the 1800s we never looked back and we're not like currently trying to reinvent atomic theory right so fun fact you know react has this like atomic structure icon so the metaphor even goes there but uh i think you know that answers why i think you know at some point you realize you know this makes sense it's an industry agreed standard this feels fundamental i'm not gonna try to reinvent it and there's a pointless not invented here of you know what

i'm gonna write a better moment.js today and there's the standards coming out and there's data fans and there's all this other like maybe there's no no true space well that would be a terrible idea yeah yeah maybe there's no true legitimate space maybe there is maybe right now there's someone that is solving it for the domain of internationalization or something that i haven't considered previously however you know we could agree that with a certain degree of certainty that that wouldn't be a good idea