I personally don’t have a great handle on how to reason about anticipated maintenance costs for a given project, yet would like to. Some simple notions: core

I personally don’t have a great handle on how to reason about anticipated maintenance costs for a given project, yet would like to. Some simple notions: core libraries should be written with few dependencies so as to reduce update impetus surface area, simplicity of method is often better. But that’s as far as I’ve got. If building something to last (the dream) probably would be better to solidify this further.