[sheepmullet]

> When I get a request for something slightly different, I almost have to start from scratch.

Do you start over from scratch in terms of your mental model or just in terms of the actual code?

I’ve found using APL helps me to generalize a problem but the underlying code will often look very different.

I have found I waste a lot of time in other languages trying to re-use components that aren’t necessarily a good fit just because I have already written them.

[girvo]

Your last point is something I fight my hardest to avoid. It’s hard, though, but leaning on small generic functional primitives and building solutions through those has helped a lot (see: Ramda, fp-ts, and others)