Comment by londons_explore
2 years ago
I wouldn't do it in most professional settings due to licensing...
But for personal projects where I just want to get something running, then yes, I would copy paste and barely even read the code.
I don't really care about bugs like this either - I'm happy to make something that works 99% of the time, and only fix that last 1% if it turns out to be an issue.
> I wouldn't do it in most professional settings due to licensing...
Underrated comment. I think most tech companies' General Counsel would have a heart attack if they were aware of StackOverflow copy-pasting by their developers. I highly doubt some rando-engineer who pastes bubblesort code into their company's code base gave even a passing though to what license the SO code was under, what license his own company's code was under, and whether they were compatible.
The big (FAANG) tech companies I've worked at all have written policies about copying and pasting code from external sources (TLDR: Don't), but I've seen even medium-sized (~1000+) companies with zero guidance for their developers.