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by zaphirplane 1079 days ago
The thing is a library usually advertises how they address a painful experience in other projects. That is the hello world fallacy, there is a blog about it.

Basically you see how elegant or easy to do X in a new library but you don’t see how complicated it is to do Y. Y is complex in the new library and simple in your existing library