Get off my lawn?
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Sometimes I'm perusing development subreddits and I get a little depressed by what i find. As an example, recently someone asked if there was a library that could drive 8 stepper motors at a time. The answer is virtually any C++ library can if you create 8 instances, but they wanted something that would handle making all the motors operate in tandem somehow, and ummm no. you have to code it yourself. Cooperatively thread everything in a master loop, use a state machine. Back when I learned to code solving problems like this meant you were a coder. Now it seems like people just expect that there's a library that will solve whatever problem they're after solving. What are you even doing? Are you coding or are you just gluing things you don't understand together? Edit: Guy responded to tell me I was incorrect. He's still looking for that magic library. :laugh: And then i log out of reddit for a week. Am I just getting old and crotchety? Was it always like this and I just didn't notice? Has the Internet just made it more apparent? Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
honey the codewitch wrote:
Back when I learned to code solving problems like this meant you were a coder.
At least for me when it was always 'do it myself' the following was true - There was a lot less available - I didn't know how to find it. - What I could find cost money. Sometimes quite a lot. - I figured no one else could have possibly been doing the same as what I was.
honey the codewitch wrote:
Now it seems like people just expect that there's a library that will solve whatever problem they're after solving
Now it is many years later - Of course someone has already tried to do this before. - There are a lot better ways to find it. - It probably costs nothing or very little (at least compared to long ago.) - My time is better spent evaluating existing solutions and gluing pieces together versus trying to implement everything from scratch. A lot of the above comes from realizing that throwing code is just a tool and not genius. What really matters is that the company sells something so that I keep getting paid.