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[–] prairie ago  (edited ago)

It's easy enough to copy existing functionality. The trick is coming up with robust data structures. And the impossibility is coming up with a good design without a team and an audience. Making shit for yourself will never result in something practical. You may have some specific idea for something, but practical implementation and trade-offs ain't gonna happen if you're a lone programmer.

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[–] GazeboCathedral 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

You have no idea what you are talking about, but that is cool. That fucker never copied a thing.

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[–] prairie 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Of course he did, he and everyone in the last few decades. We've worked out general designs for endless things in computing, so now you just reimplement within the framework, rather than have to re-invent everything. The idea of a filesystem, with hierarchical file arrangement (folders), files themselves as an ordered collection of bytes, etc. Each system adds some unique arrangements or ideas, but for the most part they are doing what's been done. This isn't a bad thing, because systems that do too many things differently are generally not useful.