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> Not having so many plug-n-play abstractions that you’re so strongly encouraged to use to “not re-invent the wheel”.

Inventing the wheel, rather than re-inventing it. There was a lot more "doing something for the first time" and less "doing something for the Nth time, slightly differently".

(Or so it felt to me. But there was still a bunch of "doing what the mainframe people did a decade ago, but doing it badly". Still, it felt different.)



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