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A different take on this: we have a small team. We are solving in a hard problem. Other people have solved this other hard problem for us. Let's focus on doing
by sophacles 13y ago
A different take on this: we have a small team. We are solving in a hard problem. Other people have solved this other hard problem for us. Let's focus on doing our thing very well, and not spend our limited cycles on redundancy.
I like to drive the point home with this (slightly hyperbolized) statement: X already does this, and those folks need it to be good if they want to eat, so why the heck are we doing it ourselves?
- Nursie 13y agoAgreed, code re-use is a very valuable and great thing. Where there are well-tested and well-proven technologies to do what you're trying to do, use them (if the license fits, it's not too expensive etc etc.) But someone has to do the 'hard' parts, and do them well, and I don't see why competent tech folks shouldn't at least be interested in that.
- anaphor 13y agoExactly. Things like this just deter people from becoming interested in "low level" things like compilers, runtime systems, databases, etc... and maybe becoming active researchers in these areas.