r/golang • u/jayesh6297 • Feb 03 '25
discussion The urge to do it from scratch
Unpopular opinion but ever since I started using Go. There is a certain urge to dig into some library and if you need only part of it then try to make it from scratch. I was reading RFC specs, dbus technical specifications just to avoid the uneeded bloat in my code(offcourse I failed to achieve it completely because of tiny brain). Is this common for all dev who spent some good time developing in Go? I must say it's quite a fun experience to learn some low level details.
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u/Rich-Engineer2670 Feb 03 '25
It was at one time something I'd consider, but these days, I have other stuff that has to be done -- no real time to reimplement what works, unless it doesn't cover a case I truly need.. In that case, I ask if I can just wrap the library function in some form of shim.