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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 24 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I feel like these memes have to (mainly) stem from badly documented or broken libraries. The only times where I don't understand what I'm doing are when I try to figure out what someone else is doing

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

The most recent library I wrote for my team at work is painstakingly documented, and everyone has been invited to the multiple recorded training sessions.

They still act like it's black magic and just push all work and questions to me.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] andioop@programming.dev 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I once saw something about how if you are trying to build it yourself instead of using a pre-existing library you come off arrogant.

Can I build it better? Probably not. But do I want to deal with a dependency in my fun side project (unfun), when I could just build it myself (fun)? No.

I probably should to get more practice with it so it is less painful, but…

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I also tend to be writing code for embedded systems, so most dependencies are non-starters.