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No. He’s saying that while another developer gets stuck in the weeds implementing their own byte-string library, he’ll be past that and shipping the feature tha
by orf 4y ago
No. He’s saying that while another developer gets stuck in the weeds implementing their own byte-string library, he’ll be past that and shipping the feature that needs a byte-string implementation to the customer or end user.
It’s the same reason you’re writing this using someone else’s web browser, on someone else’s kernel, on someone else’s hardware.
And it’s not because you’re a bad/lazy programmer or because there’s no value in understanding how all of that works.
- bowsamic 4y agoI don't (and won't ever) get it, sorry
- orf 4y agoYou do fully, 100% get it though. Because you utilise the labour of others every day with the knowledge that doing so allows you to achieve what you need to achieve, rather than spending all your time growing and harvesting corn or something.
- ZephyrBlu 4y agoYou write your own OS, web browser, etc?
- bobbyskelton41 4y agoIt's basic economics: gains from trade. It's more expensive to be entirely self-reliant.