This kind of thinking is how you end up with 8 zillion job-securing lines of custom frameworks-within-frameworks and stuff like:<p><pre><code>  def isTrue(x):
    if x:
      return true
    else:
      return false
</code></pre>
Code is debt: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;the-best-code-is-no-code-at-all&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;the-best-code-is-no-code-at-al...</a><p>Reviewing vendor libraries always a good idea, but you aren&#x27;t going to make it very far as a &quot;Senior&#x2F;Lead dev&quot; if you are constantly using someone&#x27;s money to reinvent the wheel.