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by zachrose 5642 days ago
Or it teaches you more about quality because you own the product, set the schedule, and build exactly what you want.
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It is possible to build an app that does exactly what you want and is completely unmaintainable in the future. If you don't know anything about code quality, it is rather hard to pick up on your own. It helps if you have someone more experienced to look at your code and go "No, you're doing it wrong. You don't need to subclass for x, just use y instead."