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by elsjaako 2457 days ago
Isn't this an argument against using any library at all?
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Yes!

Which bring us to the topic of tradeoffs and the synthesis of balance, by way of weighing competing advantages and costs fairly.

On the one hand, code you must write and understand. On the other, code someone else wrote, that you can just use. There is no clear winner here. It's always a tradeoff.