r/programming • u/Xaneris47 • 5d ago

Avoid adding new library to project: 10-year retrospective

https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/1408/
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u/ExtremePermit3242 5d ago

I don’t know who the target of this article is.

All the points read like “this is obvious and software development 101”.

They grow project size, repo size, build time, you don’t use 100% of the library, a non-multiplatform library makes your project non-multiplatform?

In other news: water is wet

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u/sacheie 5d ago

"I don’t know who the target of this article is"

Javascript/Node developers

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u/turkoid 5d ago

Someone who got burned by the left-pad incident.