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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/tiotags on 2024-07-05 07:53:14+00:00.

So I’ve recently seen a post on reddit about how building a webserver in C is a fruitless endeavor, and my experience with it kind of makes me agree with that sentiment.

So I wanted to ask other people’s opinion:

1. how different should an oss project be from what’s already available for it to be worth the time invested ?
2. is it useless (maybe even counterproductive) to open source something if there’s a better project out there ?

edit: I should point out that I just linked my project as an example, I am actually curious about the larger open source community and how smaller projects in general should handle time invested