Okay, but in the more general case, where something literally does not exist for a particular platform/language and my choices are "write it myself" or "don't use that platform/language", is there any way to feel confident that a choice to write it myself will not be a hideously wrong decision?
I'm not Thomas Ptacek, but I think his answer would be something to the effect of "to be really confident, get tens of thousands of dollars worth of code review before shipping." You may be prominent enough in the CL/hypothetical crypto-less platform community to get most of that for free, but that's the value of the validation needed.
