alt Hacker News> on some 50K lines of code
also some 3rd party libraries are overdesigned/overcomplicated because everybody wants the library to do everything for everybody.
This overcomplication can easily introduce security problems that is not present in the 1K solution.
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BatteryMountain • today at 10:36 AM
100% our thinking too.
> overdesigned/overcomplicated because everybody wants the library to do everything for everybody.
Also a source of significant dependency churn even excluding security bugs.
Whereas with my own code I don't have to worry about scheduling work that's only arisen because somebody outside my organisation has decided to make a breaking change in a dependency. Paying that tax got old over a decade ago, and my patience with it now is close to zero.