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> Sometimes, it really is easier to just implement something your self than go through the "soul destroying process" of figuring out how to correctly set up and
by Anderkent 11y ago
> Sometimes, it really is easier to just implement something your self than go through the "soul destroying process" of figuring out how to correctly set up and configure a library, framework, or piece of open source infrastructure
But then the next person to look at your code has completely 0 support, rather than the very little support they'd have from the crappy documentation and stack overflow if you used an open source library.
- mattmanser 11y agoYes, if you do what jimbokun suggests you're definitely doing it wrong. Edge cases will consume months of development instead of spending a day or two wrestling with poorly written error messages or badly documented APIs. The one I always hit in .Net development is logging, log4net and elmah are both abysmally poor at documentation, but incredibly easy once they're actually set up.