alt Hacker NewsThis is a problem I have a lot in modern programming ecosystems: How do I tell the difference between a library written by a team of experts who have spent decades optimizing everything to do with the task and a library written by one guy that's an unnecessary straightforward wrapper over the obvious implementation?
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xtajv • today at 1:40 AM
1. Read the code 2. Don't. Encapsulate and put yourself in a position to swap out the implementation at will.
(Maybe you'll swap out an unnecessary dependency for a simple helper function of your own).
layer8 • last Sunday at 8:16 PM
You defer to the advice of experts you trust. Which somehow have become harder to come by in terms of signal to noise than 20-30 years ago.
Or increasingly, a library written by an LLM referencing a pile of such “one guy” projects of varying levels of suck (from actually good to good-got-it-is-full-of-suck).