[pyrolistical]

> I tend to write reference implementations of everything, then combine them together as a separate project.

This is how I write software. My stackblitz is full of domain independent experiments https://stackblitz.com/@Pyrolistical. I then copypasta this into private projects once I figured out how the individual piece works.

[josephg]

Yeah I love this approach too. I’ve been learning CRDTs lately and I’ve gotten so much value from making tiny, inefficient reference implementations of things before diving in and optimizing. Toy implementations shake out all your misunderstandings of your design, and you can refactor like crazy. Going from simple code that works to complex code that works is much easier than creating the complex code correctly from scratch, in situ.

[pyrolistical]

Also I've discovered (and reported) so many bugs when I realized my very simple toy example was broken