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by gregmac 3594 days ago
Yep. I have found the mantra "Build what you need" works best.

Only once you end up having to solve a separate problem that shares common attributes/patterns with the first should you you extract a common framework and rebuild both on it. You have a proven need and you're not just blindly building "someday this could be used for"-type code.