On: On asking job candidates to code

[joantune]

"It turns out that most people would put together a Rails app with more lines on their Gemfile than lines of actual code they wrote. Worse"

- how is this worse then rewriting the wheel? write code only when you must

[Detry322 → joantune]

I would argue it contributes to huge bloat. People pull in huge powerful libraries to format a single date. In addition, a vulnerability in a library you pull in could compromise your application. Even deeper, a sub-sub-library (i.e. one you didn't even add yourself) could have a vuln that affects you.