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Re:When Your Customer is Your Competitor: The Return of Roll... by andrewvc on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @02:01PM (#1050808)
True, but then there are situations like Rails, where 37 Signals could have built their apps using existing tech, but said 'there should be a better way'. I mean, if you told someone "I'm building this project management app, and I'm going to take an esoteric language no one knows, and write an app framework from scratch" they'd rightly tell you you're crazy.

Most endeavours that start like that end up as failures, however without these attempts tech would stagnate.

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Re:When Your Customer is Your Competitor: The Return of Roll... by fnid on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @02:45PM (#1050919)
If one were to set out on such a path and accomplish the goal out of hobby or desire to learn a new language, or for whatever reason, how long would something like that take? How long did it take 37s to build ROR? How long did PHP take?

I'm just curious...

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