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> In that case, go ahead and use 3rd party libraries, but do it mediated through a facade or some kind of adapter library, so you can rapidly switch to another
by vonseel 9y ago
> In that case, go ahead and use 3rd party libraries, but do it mediated through a facade or some kind of adapter library, so you can rapidly switch to another one.
That’s how I was taught to do it. But I’ve yet to see people take the time to do this in real-life Code.
- eecks 9y agoWhat adapter library?
- stcredzero 9y agoThe one you write.
- stcredzero 9y agoA coworker of mine used the technique to port the company's application from using an old object database to Oracle. People certainly use this in real-life code.