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hatefulhearttoday at 7:54 AM1 replyview on HN

False equivalency. The maintenance and expertise required to run the codebase you’ve generated still falls flatly on you. When you use a library or a framework it normally is domain experts that do that stuff.


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sunrunnertoday at 8:05 AM

I’m so glad we’ve got domain experts to write those tricky things like left-pad for us.

On a more serious note, I do think that the maintenance aspect is a differentiator, and that if it’s something that you end up committing to your codebase then ownership and accountability falls to you. Externally sourced libraries and frameworks ultimately have different owners.

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