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nouney | 7 years ago

> - Avoid NIH: There's a very good chance that the code you're writing could instead be imported from libraries/frameworks that already offer it. Avoid the overhead of reinventing the wheel and focus exclusively on business logic (and sometimes even that might already exist in some oss projects you can use).

I partially agree. Sometimes it's better to reinvent the wheel: you got better control and less risks.

(How can I properly quote someone on HN?)

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luord|7 years ago

> You get better control and less risks.

Well, I'm not saying that people just put whatever first library they found as a dependency. We should review different options and pick the most mature that adjusts to our case.

Ultimately, software used and contributed by many people in a community is far less likely to have risks than one a single developer cobbled together to deliver a feature as fast as possible.

> How can I properly quote someone on HN?

You can't, I just use the markdown syntax and hope for the best =D