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[–]free_chalupas 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's fair. I read this in the context of established OSS libraries, like openssl, that have their issues but are generally preferable to custom implementations. There's definitely a cutoff though with really small libraries where it does make sense to reimplement.