[jakelazaroff]

If you use an external library, it's much more likely that you can google any issues you have with it, rather than having to reverse engineer it. The reason the GP quoted this:

> I personally find it far easier to fix my own code than others' code.

is that if you work on a team, you're fixing others' code either way. The difference is that with an external library there's usually documentation, a community, etc; but with a home-rolled solution, you're usually on your own.

[tabtab]

External libraries usually have to cater to wider usage and thus have more code and more parts and more options. A "dedicated" in-house module will typically be much less code because it has one job, meaning less to read, reverse engineer, test, etc. I'm not saying one is always better than the other, only that one brings in a rather complex wad of code in most external libraries that could be a bottleneck.

The "community" often ignores my bug fix requests, I would note. Maybe I ask wrong, but we don't all have wonderful asking skills. If you do, that's a nice feature of your personality, but doesn't necessarily extrapolate to all code users.