software developer | | stakeholder | 1.4 - Stakeholders in Software Engineering | new libraries, APIs and frameworks because- developing anything reusable is seen as not directly benefiting the current customer
- If a developer has painstakingly developed a high-quality reusable component, but management only rewards the efforts of people who create the more visible 'final product', then that developer will be reluctant to spend time on reusable components in the future
- Efforts at creating reusable software are often done in a hurry and without enough attention to quality. People thus lose confidence in the resulting components, and in the concepts of reuse and reusability
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