Unpopular opinion: “Potential reuse” (and with it to a lesser extend “avoiding tech debt”) is such a scourge on programming.
It rarely actually happens, because by the time you could maybe actually at least partially reuse something some other new shiny framework is in use so you end up writing it from scratch anyway. https://hachyderm.io/@hbuchel/112244085024524564
@thomasfuchs it depends. Most of my almost 2 decades at work has been spent on the same code that originated in the late 1990s. I wish I could rewrite it from scratch, but it's too big.
@thomasfuchs I’ve been following the “WET” (Write Everything Twice) idea and it’s helped save us from a lot of useless work trying to make something generic
@petrillic@hbuchel Maybe people think because libraries they use are reusable all code should be, but obviously eventually code has to solve a specific, unique problem.
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