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I think one other main reason for myself is I feel happier being non conformist, and sometimes writing my own from scratch code rather than using a popular libr
by dosy 8y ago
I think one other main reason for myself is I feel happier being non conformist, and sometimes writing my own from scratch code rather than using a popular library.
When I do that I find I perform better, feel more confident, have more creativity, and am more engaged in my work. Feeling unique and being authentic in work is important to me.
Writing my own stuff like this is one things that feels non conformist to me. It’s motivating.
- smt88 8y agoLet me first say that I like the approach you took in this library, and it's surprisingly clean in terms of syntax. As for your personal preference to be unique and non-conformist, I can't argue with that because it's a personal preference. I will, however, push back a little bit on the idea that reinventing a wheel and being non-conformist results in good code. If you're fixing legitimate deficiencies in existing solutions, great! Otherwise you're just writing code that's harder to understand, harder to maintain, and likely buggier. And that's the best-case scenario. In some cases, you'll be reinventing a wheel, but you'll be doing it worse because you're missing the cumulative hundreds of years of programming experience that go into a great FOSS alternative. So for code that'll never be touched by another person and can tolerate bugs, great! Don't conform. But that's a very, very narrow category of code.
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- dosy 8y agoIntriguing theory. It's unrelated to how I think about it. Interesting to know you think that way, tho.
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- crislin2046 8y agoDon’t pretend someone can’t create something better than what exists, just because you need to feel better about stopping yourself.