Writing something like this is a great way for someone to learn programming basics, but why is this on the HN front page? It's not particularly educational or interesting and has no practical utility for anyone.
Some people view abstraction as something they can happily ignore. They use libraries, upon frameworks, in VMs, on blockchains, just so that they can pile on. If all we do is add, there's no purpose. Absolutum obsoletum.
Maybe it's some sort of existential crisis I'm going through, but I'm starting to ditch many advanced programs/services in favor of simple tools I can fully build and understand myself. YMMV, of course.
It isn't just you. A lot of my own energy wasted on tools and other things that don't really help you solve problems.
This reminds me of an excerpt from PoC||GTFO.
"[W]hen you’re tooling around with a from-scratch tool and your neighbors tell you to use this or use that, look ’em in the eye and say, “I’m building my own fucking birdfeeder.”" [1]
I didn’t want for it to get to the front page at all, by the way! I was honestly not expecting this to get more than the three points it got yesterday, to be honest!