The whole purpose of programming is to have a better product than your competition, not yet another broken clone.

1    13 Jun 2018 21:20 by u/roznak

The whole purpose of programming is to have a better product than your competition, not yet another broken clone. And you can't create a better product if you use the exact same libraries as the competition.

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Purpose of what programming? Commercial programming? Perhaps.

Personal programming? No. The only purpose of that is to make you happy. Same libraries or not.

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In programming there is a survival of the fittest. If you don't follow the pace the others do, then you will never manage to catch up anymore. Your fun will be short-lived.

The fun is being better than the competition, break the laws of programming by doing stuff everybody else claims that it cannot be done. You are not a slave of the frameworks, you command the frameworks, even extend them if they fail to do what you want it to do.