>"In short, I think it's become entirely too easy for people using certain programming languages to use libraries from the wide world of clowns that is the Inte

>"In short, I think it's become entirely too easy for people using certain programming languages to use libraries from the wide world of clowns that is the Internet. Their ecosystems make it very very easy to become reliant on this stuff. Trouble is, those libraries are frequently shit. If something about it is broken, you might not be able to code around it, and may have to actually deal with them to get it fixed. Repeat 100 times, and now you have a real problem brewing." A future job interview question that might be asked at my future company: "Let's say you're using a library for specific functionality, a library that you haven't written. Now let's say that there's a bug in that library that you can't work around. How would you debug that library?" See, there's a differentiator there. There are programmers who can debug libraries, and then there are programmers that can merely use libraries provided to them. Given a choice, you want a programmer who can debug libraries working for your company...