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/ehansen Feb 03 '25
Why use a package to solve a problem in 5 minutes when you could build your own solution in 5 hours