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goodpoint
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Reinvent the Wheel
> almost by definition, if a library is popular, it contains huge amounts of code
popularity != bloat
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44 days ago
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It almost always means bloat though, because any library that’s not updated in the span of a year is considered “abandoned” and succumbs to feature creep.
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