External frameworks and libraries

Question

I was recently talking to a friend and this sentence changed my ways in programming; "I do not tend to use external frameworks or libraries" . I still think external frameworks and libraries are good but for some reason I now push my self to do everything my self, I am even now going to host my website at home, not use anything like bootstrap and ditch google firebase for my iOS apps and the website. I'm just asking, does anyone think a 13 year old like me can successfully manage this?

Answer 1

I think there's always a time and place to do both. Doing things yourself allows you to learn more, but using libraries and frameworks can be much faster and efficient for certain things; in most cases, it also makes your code easier to maintain. Personally, I prefer libraries more than frameworks, because you have to learn how to use a framework in order to use it. With a library, all you have to do is look up functions or other things to use it. I heard a good quote for this recently: "A frame work calls your code, while your code calls a library". It just depends though.

Answer 2

Damn it, my upload rate is like 10 megabits per second, otherwise I would happily learn all that stuff. :)