Earflap

Everyone who is upset about this fails to comprehend that the world has fundamentally changed since then and Americans literally voted trump into office.

Either that or they're paid trolls. Hard to tell sometimes.

The rest of the world has no ability to understand, because they've been in the same place for 700 generations.

I am NOT writing a database connector unless you add an additional three months to your projects expectations.

I am NOT writing an LDAP connector.

I am NOT writing code to execute shell processes safely.

And I'm sure as hell not writing an XML parser just so I can say I did it without libraries.

JS devs that import libraries for every stupid thing (lpad comes to mind) are bad programmers, but libraries are useful and have their place.

And if my boss doesn't want me using those libraries, they need to specify that in advance or there needs to be a company policy to that effect. Otherwise, I'm solving the problem my way since that's what I'm getting paid to do.

Bigabyte

Yeah fr sometimes I need to sit on a problem for a week or talk with coworkers or other teams before a solution presents itself. Programming isn't just writing code, that's practically the last step.

Hell I spend most of my day just reading the old code and the docs just in case I find an opportunity to massively optimize things, and those have been some of my best projects.

If they wanted me to use a specific tool or lack thereof they should have said that. Instead they said "fix this problem" and instead of writing the entire codebase from the ground up I used the tools that were available to me so I could focus on fixing the problem instead of fixing the fix to fix the fix for the fix of the problem.