Plus, it’s bloat. A snippet of extra code isn’t going to cause much trouble, but then you end up doing it a lot, and there’s snippets in the snippets, and all the sudden something that used to fit on a floppy is 3 gigs.
I have no idea how much of a factor this is relative other various performance-sacrificing shortcuts, but Wirth’s law is a thing.
“A little copying is better than a little dependency.”
Judgement call. When it’s something prone to change that’s hard to get right, duplicating it just creates more maintenance burden.
For sure. But I’ve seen a lot more sins committed in the name of reusing code than in the name of minimizing dependencies.
Plus, it’s bloat. A snippet of extra code isn’t going to cause much trouble, but then you end up doing it a lot, and there’s snippets in the snippets, and all the sudden something that used to fit on a floppy is 3 gigs.
I have no idea how much of a factor this is relative other various performance-sacrificing shortcuts, but Wirth’s law is a thing.