Comment by Zababa

I wonder if sometimes always telling people to not do anything themselves and use already made libraries is robbing the industry (and especially juniors) of lots of opportunities to learn. Instead of being in control of what you do, you learn to use something made by other people to simplify things. This is a bit like cooking where in the last 10-20 years I've seen appliances appearing everywhere. Some are very good (I love my slow cooker), some I'm more perplexed about (A stand mixer? I usually get by either with my hand for dense doughs like pizza or bread or a hand mixer for more liquid/light doughs). If everybody uses libraries, how are we training new libraries writers? Maybe part of the solution would be to tell people to use libraries, and then read the code, try to understand them and contribute.