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by goguy 1882 days ago
If you use third party libs with the appropriate licence then your the one that fixes it, just the same as if you rolled your own.
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If you rolled your own, you invest your time to learn about the problem domain. If you use third party libs, you invest your time to learn about its interface/behavior. That is usually much more ephemeral knowledge. It is good tradeoff if the library does some heavy lifting, but that is not always true.