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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"A little copying is better than a little dependency."

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 6 points 6 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.