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Re:NIH Is Far Cheaper Than the Wrong Dependency by nc0 on Friday July 18, 2025 @06:47AM (#44603209)
NIH is cool and all for greenfield projects but please remember that most of industrial work today is compatibility with old standards and behaviors, dealing with their bugs and edge cases. In that case, a third-party dependency that has been existing for 20 years will be better.
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Re:NIH Is Far Cheaper Than the Wrong Dependency by eapriv on Friday July 18, 2025 @07:57AM (#44603714)
If you have a third-party dependency that survived for 20 years. But what if you are trying to choose what to rely on today, and to decide if it will even exist in 20 years? Certainly none of the fashionable JavaScript frameworks will.
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