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by pitched 1851 days ago
> Thou shalt study thy libraries and strive not to re-invent them without cause, that thy code may be short and readable and thy days pleasant and productive.

Just reading through the list of names of libraries in a package manager is more than I can handle, let alone reading through their APIs. I imagine this was a bit more possible to do in the 80s. Still though, I wish there was a more manageable way to handle this.