Comment

Comment by jillesvangurp

Most of those you'd consume in library form. Most programmers shouldn't be writing their own lists, hash maps, b-trees, sort algorithms, etc. Or generally reinvent wheels. It's nice to understand how this stuff works and have a notion of complexity and other limitations. But, mostly we're just sticking things together that already works.

I've dabbled a bit over the years with reinventing wheels like this and it's fun. and of course I had an algorithms course when I did my CS degree, 30 years ago. But, I can't say I spend a lot of time obsessing about algorithm implementations. I mostly just use them in library form; just like everybody else.

Discussion

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton