Rewriting from scratch beats depending on a single maintainer with feelings
l4rz · x · 2026-10-06
Developer l4rz shares an engineering take: when a dependency is effectively one person with authority and feelings, re-implementing the whole thing from scratch becomes his go-to approach — a nod to the single-maintainer risk many teams would rather avoid than negotiate with.
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