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by giantg2 370 days ago
I'd much rather learn a library than create it from scratch. The two main issues are licensing concerns and being able to find ones that actually do what you need.
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The third issue is avoiding “You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.”

(The quotes comes from a different context, but works quite well here as well.)