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Re:Elm at Rakuten by aszen on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @02:35PM (#28225345)
This is a common argument i have seen devs make when evaluating building from scratch vs adoption, here's what building from scratch gives you, a leaner more understandable piece of code that does what you want and nothing more.

An open source library is necessarily generic and has to be battle tested to make sure it fulfills all use cases, while the library you write only has to cover your own needs that makes it easier to understand, extend and debug

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Re:Elm at Rakuten by xupybd on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:05PM (#28229897)
Not to mention when the language you are using updates and you have to update the code. If the 3rd party library is no longer maintained you have to upgrade the library yourself. It's much nicer if it's a small bit of code you wrote with only the use cases you need.
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