If you're taking about foundational dependencies like OpenSSL, Linux, LLVM, or even jQuery and React, sure. Also most stdlibs and DBs, like GP said he uses, als

If you're taking about foundational dependencies like OpenSSL, Linux, LLVM, or even jQuery and React, sure. Also most stdlibs and DBs, like GP said he uses, also fall into that. Dependencies in general, like 95% (or more) of the kind we see in modern package managers? No, they're mostly untested liabilities and the majority of them could be rewritten in an afternoon. This whole discussion is a bit strange. GP clearly uses dependencies, just not as much as everyone else today. I don't understand why the fixation with polarizing the discussion into "use lots of dependencies" vs "write everything from scratch".