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the art of building something once and being too lazy to build it again.
means the quality of a component, code, or object being designed so it can be used again in different contexts without being rebuilt from scratch.
from emerged as a formal engineering virtue in the 1960s software crisis, when programmers realized rewriting the same logic for every project was expensive, buggy, and deeply undignified.
nasa originapollo guidance software modules were reused across missions
opposite sincopy-paste code is reusability's lazy evil twin
biology versioneyes evolved independently over 40 times, nature reusing tricks
economic casereused code cuts development cost by up to 60 percent
for instance
spacex falcon 9 — booster landings let one rocket fly over a dozen missions
lego bricks — same stud pattern since 1958 fits every set ever made
linux kernel — one codebase runs phones, servers, and the international space station
react components — a single button component reused across thousands of web apps