I totally agree with that proverb, and we definitely don't do the religious following of DRY that is such an antipattern all the time. I just worry that maybe there is an entire legion of utilities that are in use across the board, and maybe 2 or 3 of those are integral enough to be a part of the standard library and maybe another 10-20 of those could standardize on a much more performant version than the simple helpers that many developers might end up using in the interest of time, and maybe another 20 of those are utilities people never even thought of using but could really help them out. I know browsing the stdlib functions and documentation really helps our new elixir engineers. I definitely see your point about bloat. I *may* find/start a common utility library, just to find out whether or not I'm the only one who thinks it may be useful, and to maybe find new and better versions of utilities that might help us. We're at like 60k LoC so sharing some utilities isn't out of the question.
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