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It's also important to remind people to not roll your own when battle-tested libraries exist. (The exception being, of course, building something for the sake
by majewsky 8y ago
It's also important to remind people to not roll your own when battle-tested libraries exist.
(The exception being, of course, building something for the sake of learning. By all means, build your own date formatting functions, but don't put them in production.)
- rendall 8y agoAssuming that the library exactly serves the needs of the project without much cruft, or the cost of rolling your own is higher than using a library all else considered, and the library is well written and documented, then I agree. As a completely unrelated aside, I wonder if there should be a "Falsehoods programmers believe about libraries"
- BerislavLopac 8y agoI'd certainly like to see "Falsehoods programmers believe about passwords". And for that matter, "Falsehoods programmers believe about programming", and possibly "Falsehoods programmers believe about falsehoods". ;)