For those of you who are into development or programming of any type and if you read any type of blogs or long form articles that provide tutorials for how to achieve a certain type of task, then you’ve no doubt seen comments that say something along the lines of:
Or you could just use [this library] to solve the problem rather than writing it yourself.
Or maybe you’ll see something like:
There’s no need to do anything like this because XYZ solution already does it.
And it’s not that those types of statements aren’t true or even useful resources, but given in the improper context, I think they can seriously put a damper on the motivation people have for writing tutorials and/or reading tutorials because they tend to say that there’s no point in understanding how to do it in a given way when something else already does it.
It’s as if everything is reduced to reinventing the wheel – but it’s not.
For those of us who are genuinely interested in programming, isn’t part of the reason that we got into the field was not only to build things, but because we have an insatiable curiosity for how things work?
