Hacker News Reader

Comment by gok | Hacker News Reader

Developers want to avoid writing one simple thing, so they add a huge dependency, then never remove the dependency even if they later remove the needed feature. And then they don’t even bother to enable trivial optimizations like dead code stripping because they just don’t care.

View on HN

Don't just put it on developers. There's the business requiring our team to include Google Analytics, Usabilla and Airship, and they're already asking us to include another random analytics package as well.

> they just don’t care.

This is it. Developers on broadband and tight budgets don't care about app size. On the App Store there's usually no direct correlation between app size and conversion rate: the app will eventually be available anyway.

Should I write my own QR parser or just use available one. Should I write my own crypto algo or just use battletested one.

Every line I write - line I need to support.

> Should I write my own crypto algo or just use battletested one.

Why would the "battletested" be better ? It is "battletested" by the user, anyway.

> Every line I write - line I need to support.

So you prefer to support someone elses code instead of yours ? ( because it is battletested - just like log4j was)

> Why would the "battletested" be better ? It is "battletested" by the user, anyway.

Your tense is incorrect there. "Battletested" means that past users have experienced the carnage of war, so current users can enjoy peace. Your second usage would need to be changed to present tense, like "battletesting", where you subject them to suffering.

I’m with you on that, but the two are not mutually exclusive. I don’t know how it is exactly in Xcode, but in my field there’s a huge difference between importing a whole kitchen sink named “moment.js” or a few “date-fns” functions.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com