One big benefit of making the source code open is that you can ask others (who are familiar with the programming language you used and the topic such as cryptography here) look at your code and help you improve or fix the bugs it contains.
Yeah there's alot of open source python packages you can install the problem is they get broken or simply don't work. And the sad truth is it's often just alot easier to code up your own thing than to try and figure out why their's is not working since alot of times, those packages had other dependancies and the errors that are being thrown have to do with those dependencies. I call that software bloat and it's ugly.
And the thing about it is, even the ones that do work, you always run the risk that something in them will break if they stop being maintained and then you have to try and figure out how to fix it or just code your own. It wouldnt be so bad if they didn't install a bazillion dependencies that are themselves complex projects in their own right when it's really not even necessary lol.
it makes me wonder if some of these programmers even really understand what they are doing. you wouldn't need to rely on other packages so heavily if you really know how to program something. not in every case. i find i am getting the best bang for my buck by building up a library of tools that don't have these huge complicated dependencies on unnecessary glitz and glamour.
but i guess everyone can do their own thing.
this epiphany comes to me as I had tried installing and utilizing a simple passphrase generator. you would think that would be a simple thing that couldn't go wrong...
