> my point was that with a good package manager, that cost is effectively zero. yes, which doesn't refute pdkl95's point. If you're not in the world with a goo

> my point was that with a good package manager, that cost is effectively zero. yes, which doesn't refute pdkl95's point. If you're not in the world with a good package manager, you should consider the cost of the dependency. The Node ecosystem seems to not have done that. That's the bottom line here, if there is a cost to dependencies (which you don't seem to disagree with, at least wrt NPM), then you shouldn't have dependencies for 11-line functions. Everything else is orthogonal.