• tatterdemalion@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    Judgement call. When it’s something prone to change that’s hard to get right, duplicating it just creates more maintenance burden.

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      4 days ago

      For sure. But I’ve seen a lot more sins committed in the name of reusing code than in the name of minimizing dependencies.

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      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.