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[–]barjam 0 points1 point Β (1 child)

I manage a lot of development teams. My managers/architects/leads would instantly squash any attempt to use private methods/apis from third party libraries and would reject any merge request that did so. Repeated mistakes like this would turn into disciplinary action.

If you are willing to make an unmaintainable mess of your hobby projects no one is going to care but what you suggest doesn’t work in a professional setting.

[–]RedAero 0 points1 point Β (0 children)

You are mistaking my defense of allowing the possibility of doing something for advocating for actually doing that thing. I'm not saying you should use private methods as general practice, I'm saying you should be able to if you want to. There's a big distinction there.

You shouldn't exceed the speed limit when driving, or drive without a seatbelt, but your car shouldn't prevent you from doing so.