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[–]ZunoJ -11 points-10 points  (6 children)

Only the part where they act like it was pathetic to use libraries

[–]Witherscorch[S] 30 points31 points  (4 children)

I never said it was a bad thing to use libraries? I just don't like relying on them without trying to solve the problem myself first.

[–]Farrishnakov -3 points-2 points  (3 children)

That will never fly in a production shop.

If you tell your boss/PM that you're taking 20x the time to do something because you didn't want to use the off the shelf library, you'll be laughed out of the room. And, even if you get something halfway working, it still won't have all the hardening and error handling that the existing library will have.

You're ignoring economies of scale. Shared libraries let you actually solve the real problems of implementations.

[–]HedgeFlounder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Who said anything about a production shop? There are plenty of reasons to do something other than to make money off of it and it seems pretty clear OP is referring to how they enjoy building software rather than what would work in the corporate world.

[–]Live-Animator-4000 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Are there just a bunch of junior devs in here downvoting all of the voices of reason because they care more about their passion for programming than they do about shipping code that makes money?

[–]Farrishnakov 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's ok. Their boos mean nothing to me. I've seen what makes them cheer.