alt Hacker NewsIt’s also horrible because each project ends up reinventing their own abstractions or solutions for dealing with common things.
Destroys a lot of opportunity for code reuse / integration. Especially within a company.
Alternatively their code base remains a steaming pile of crap riddled with vulnerabilities.
That's how everything works. You start off with some atomics and build up from there. Things that people like get standardized, And before you know what's going on it's called stdlib.
It took a decade between Stroustrup's 1985 book "The C++ Programming Language" and the STL proposed and accepted by the ANSI/ISO committee in 1994.