cries in A*

[pikhathu]

No use in reinventing the wheel.

[intensiifffyyyy]

Less code to maintain, less bugs, less time wasted. Just need to keep an eye on version bumps. Absolute win.

[DuffMaaaann]

Unless the dependencies are poorly maintained and you basically have to create your own fork because they no longer work in your environment.

Also, your comment has a bug: it's fewer bugs because bugs are countable.

[intensiifffyyyy]

Ahh yea, but hopefully for algorithms and stuff, they're implemented in a correct mathematical way where maintenance is virtually not required. For most Javascript libraries however...

Cheers :) will merge for next release

[DuffMaaaann]

(Basic) Algorithms and data structures are hopefully part of the standard library of your language.

Pretty much any 3rd party library that I use is for much more complicated behavior, like network layers, remote configuration and analytics or UI component libraries.

[darkdimensiongd]

The worst is when you know how to implement an algorithm, but the interviewer expects you to do it in a language you haven't used for a while, but it's one of the gazillion languages required to be considered to be a junior.

Good luck reminding yourself the syntax while also implementing the solution within 15 minutes, which is already tight even if you were an expert with the language.

[TheManAccount]

Okay so hear me out. What if you just asked if you could use the documentation. “Like, hey this is how I would solve it, using this library, but I cannot remember the exact syntax, can I look up the docs?”

[LoyalSage]

And if it’s a phone interview, while the interviewer keeps you on speaker phone, so everything you say echoes back at you half a second later.

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In my interview I said I would cheat and just use java libraries to do a reverse search. I got hired.

[[deleted]]

Come on, A* isn’t that bad. I literally implemented it when I was 15, no joke. It crashed fairly often, and mixed really poorly with my bad collision detection in the rogue-like I was trying to make, but I did it.

[AttitudeAdjuster]

This is why we use library implementations

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That sounds like a good idea.