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		idlehand on Sept 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I’m a productive programmer with a memory of a fru... Your own code is as foreign as a third party library to a developer who hasn't been part of the writing process. Third party libraries which have a handful or more users are generally speaking relatively bug-free for standard use cases. Third party libraries are generally a productivity win for languages which have decent build systems, which is most of them notably excluding C and C++.

mgaunard on Sept 20, 2022 [–]

Not true, the codebase of any company has all its components well-integrated with each other and uses consistent style.

Every third-party library will feel extremely alien.

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