It is not a clean example of NIH. Got stores its data on disk in the git format.
That aside, NIH is only foolish when the talent falls short of the ambitions. When the talent is up to the challenge, and when there are resources available, there should be no shame in it.
There is a different folly, but we don't yet have a pithy name for it. That is where people are so fearful of being criticised for reinventing the wheel that they twist technology to satisfy requirements it is badly matched to.
That aside, NIH is only foolish when the talent falls short of the ambitions. When the talent is up to the challenge, and when there are resources available, there should be no shame in it.
There is a different folly, but we don't yet have a pithy name for it. That is where people are so fearful of being criticised for reinventing the wheel that they twist technology to satisfy requirements it is badly matched to.