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by topkai22 4125 days ago
If you are writing a enterprise crud or workflow app that likely wont ever be looked at again till a systems upgrade comes in 3 years, having a sprawl of abandoned or semi-abandoned libraries can be a nightmare to update.

Enterprise it management includes trying to coalesce around a well known corporate standards for that reason. It's much easier to maintain upgrade a portfolio of projects if they are all using the same libraries than if each project is using a different 3rd party library. Sometimes these standards mean sucking it up and using core language feature or existing library features to bridge the gap to where you want to be.