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It's not just NIH, after a certain size every external lib is a liability. You don't want to wait for some OSS maintainer to unblock your multi billion dollar b
by mping 4y ago
It's not just NIH, after a certain size every external lib is a liability. You don't want to wait for some OSS maintainer to unblock your multi billion dollar business' issue.
- ByteJockey 4y agoIf that were the case, you'd expect to see forking of 3rd party libraries rather than writing of new ones.
- aeyes 4y agoMost of the time you probably only use a small portion of the 3rd party library functionality so forking the whole thing and ripping out everything you don't use or maintaining it doesn't make much sense.