Not all hacks are low quality/throw away code, some even survive their products. I recently implemented email processing as separate Python processes that are remote-controlled via stdin/out; definitely a hack, but at the same time it works pretty well and allows me to keep moving while Golang's email libraries sort themselves out. Striving for perferction is fine; pretending to be perfect, not so much.
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