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Honestly, the biggest issue for me is that it's someone else's code that is usually not following industry standards of maintaining something. Usually, it goes off in some open-source standard way of doing something. If more projects were better at standardizing toward the known industry standards then it'd be far easier for me to jump into.
Where "Industry standard" is EBCDIC? ASN.1?
Now don't get me wrong ASN.1 is actually kinda nice but if the industry wants FLOSS to adopt it it better produce some actual, comprehensive, FLOSS libraries that make working with it easy. In other instances they shout "noone supports our standards", while simultaneously locking those standards behind $10000 fees to even view. Or they invent brand-new ways to do things just for the heck of it and refuse to be compatible with every other manufacturer out there, see e.g. the NVidia kms/gbm saga. "Yeah we know we're writing a linux driver but let's just ignore how every other linux graphics driver interacts with its environment". Hardware companies trying to productise software leads to some atrocious insanity.
But which industry standard?