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		numbsafari on Jan 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Erlang's not about lightweight processes and messa... When it comes to buy vs build, the grass _is_ always greener.

another2another on Jan 27, 2023 [–]

Then what you buy turns out to be not nearly as good as you thought, meanwhile lots of motivated open source developers are turning your homegrown build into something really game changing.

Sod's Law.

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