• dudinax@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    That’s part of the nature of programming. Half-finished might be good enough. If you’ve made an awesome wheel but I need a kink in one of my spokes and yours doesn’t do that, making my own wheel might be cheaper than modding yours.

    OTOH, there’s nothing more frustrating than looking for a particular wheel, finding ten really great ones that collectively have the features you need, but individually aren’t good enough.

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      1 year ago

      To stay in the analogy: usually we just want to transport things from a to b. It doesn’t matter, how we get there. So usually we begin with a road and start to cobble together a vehicle from barely fitting and functioning junk we find on the roadside.

      There’s hardly any stable surface to work on. And that’s extremely costly.