Lea Verou 03/04/2012

In defense of reinventing wheels

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This software engineering article challenges the dogma 'don't reinvent the wheel'. It argues that when existing libraries provide far more features than needed, the performance overhead and maintainability costs of redundant code can outweigh the benefits. The author suggests creating your own solution is justified when you require less than 20% of an existing library's functionality.

In defense of reinventing wheels

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