Re:Ask HN: When does it make sense to roll your own X?
by kd5bjo on Sunday July 14, 2019 @08:04AM
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> But you will, over time, run into edge cases and problems that a mature library has already solved for
It’s entirely possible that the new problems you encounter will be different than the ones the mature library was designed to address, and then you end up hacking around solutions to problems you don’t have in order to fix the ones you do.
It’s entirely possible that the new problems you encounter will be different than the ones the mature library was designed to address, and then you end up hacking around solutions to problems you don’t have in order to fix the ones you do.