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Re:Why I often implement things from scratch (2006) by Paperweight on Sunday March 08, 2020 @03:27PM (#22519973)
"Surely this core cryptography library with 21 contributors and led by a superstar Node.JS dev with 9+ million weekly downloads and 1000+ dependants will be a great example to read and learn from..."

Opens source code.

Closes source code.

"Well, looks like I'm going to be a Rust developer from now on."

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Re:Why I often implement things from scratch (2006) by NohatCoder on Sunday March 08, 2020 @04:25PM (#22520368)
Just don't ever look into the crates, as long as the lid stays on the crates are perfect, no reason to believe otherwise.
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Re:Why I often implement things from scratch (2006) by slavik81 on Sunday March 08, 2020 @04:27PM (#22520382)
I had the same experience, but I tried to help. Now my name is in the contributors list, but I still don't trust it. My changes have all been lost to rewrites, and I assume new bugs have replaced the old ones I fixed.
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