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That one person (sometimes) puts in more effort into that single library then I've seen some agencies put into a client project.
by ClikeX 6y ago
That one person (sometimes) puts in more effort into that single library then I've seen some agencies put into a client project.
- wwweston 6y agoIntrinsic vs extrinsic motivation. It's pretty common for someone building a library to do so for the utility, scratching a real itch. Not universal (people build libraries to be someone who built a library, too), but common. It's very common for agencies to be building client projects in order to bill for it. Sometimes there's a special alignment where the client is also primarily interested in spending an allotted budget so long as there's a plausibly adequate deliverable.
- typon 6y agoIt's hard for me to think of open source libraries that are developed and maintained by mega corporations that I actually prefer to use over libraries made by small indie developers. The only one that I can think of is pytorch, but thats kind of unfair since it was acquired by Facebook not developed from scratch by them.
- tracker1 6y agoFor me, the biggest is React... aside from that, not much really.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoGolang is pretty well liked. And Guava in Java land, and Abseil in C++. It's not too surprising that the stuff big companies make for their needs isn't as useful for small indie devs as stuff small indie devs make.