Fits in well with an important piece of my professional philosophy: aggressively fight to strip magic away from my dependency tree.
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Yes. From the dependency tree, and from all things that it can reasonably be stripped, really.
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The difference between thinking of a library as “hiding the hard bits” vs “automating the hard bits you already understand.”
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Of course.
I sort of wrote about this in 2011, but didn’t phrase it about libraries:
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Doesn’t that depend on the subject at hand? Graphics programming, sure. Encryption/Compression libraries..?
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No, those, too. Just a question of priority. If they're central to my project, I'd want to understand them 100%.
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