[lyu07282]

I don't think the problem we are talking about is lazy programmers or the availability of libraries.

People think hard things should be easy and with less "friction". If I want to output a string why should I have to know what the difference between stdout and stderr is? If I write CSV to a file why do I need to know the difference between CRLF and LF, and UTF-8 and UTF-16 or what a BOM is? At the end of all of this you end up with a company named 'W""oopWoop;' crashing the banking industry.

So no, you should know all of that, and more or get the fuck out of my industry.

[wruza]

For me it is. I feel the friction and how it disrupts the parallel flow of multiple lines of thought on the code, cause you have to stop and implement a stupid method. Also have seen this many times in less experienced or less patient programmers, who inlined lots of code that should have been a library and cut corners in there due to time, mental and other pressures. Providing them a set of tools they could paste (poor platform) into a globally loaded module improved their jobs a lot.

I think the high horse here is a bad point cause it simply claims it must be hard for no good reason. It’s not even complexity-wise hard, you just have to (metaphotically) unpack your instruments every time you use them. That’s bs at all experience levels and it must be obvious to anyone who works in a shop. Ime, the problem isn’t knowledge, but inconvenience.