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> Lots of developers will find it much more interesting, challenging, rewarding and just plain fun to develop something from scratch, even when there are better
by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> Lots of developers will find it much more interesting, challenging, rewarding and just plain fun to develop something from scratch, even when there are better things that already exist.
This is true; but after enough years in the industry you learn to correlate success with laziness. This is well-discussed and arguably obvious but on an emotional level it takes a long time to fully sink in. We were all once developers with outsized ambitions and awareness we can flee to greener pastures.
- quantadev 2y agoI've said in the past "The best developers are the laziest ones". We don't want to do a bit of unnecessary work at all. But at the same time since I spend almost ever waking hour of my spare time coding, the word lazy still isn't quite accurate in every way either.
- mech422 2y agoLarry Wall would agree :-D
- zimpenfish 2y ago> the word lazy still isn't quite accurate in every way either. I take it in its form from "lazy loading" - "don't do it until absolutely necessary" (which kinda devolves into YAGNI.)