alt Hacker NewsThe comparison to artisanal furniture really lands because we do spend way too much time on the basics. It would be nice to just assemble the pieces we need and move on to the interesting work.
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_ZeD_ • today at 4:25 AM
Just to be sure... What is the interesting work you talk about?
I'm not too sure about this take. The larger code rewrite issue is constantly trying to be solved, which is somehow making the problem worse.
In another view, standard libraries do a pretty good job.