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by thaumasiotes 3622 days ago
> what programmer wants to [...] reinvent the wheel because of NIH syndrome?

Almost all of them?

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Hard to imagine, when I see all the stories about tiny modules in Node.js...but easy to imagine when I see how many JS frameworks are out there.

Still, so much of what we do these days is just tying together other people's libraries, connecting them together and maybe doing a bit of data conversion. My first step when I need to do something is to find out if someone else already wrote the software. Then I can just install+configure+move on to more interesting things.