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Re:Ask HN: When does it make sense to roll your own X? by raverbashing on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:39AM (#20432743)
Oh yeah NIH is a problem, but "we can't invent it here" is also a problem

Person tries to find a library that does what one line of code would do (cough left pad cough and others) and then guess what, the library fails at that thing that maybe not 90% of people need but 50% need

And that even applies to some corners of famous apps or libraries big sigh

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Re:Ask HN: When does it make sense to roll your own X? by austincheney on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:43AM (#20432763)
This is too common of a problem because many developers are functionally illiterate in their primary programming language.

Invented here syndrome: https://dev.to/mortoray/invented-here-syndrome-4mg8

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