I definitely think you should minimize 3rd party dependencies. That is where things turn nasty fast. You want 1 chef in the kitchen wherever possible. This "ope

I definitely think you should minimize 3rd party dependencies. That is where things turn nasty fast. You want 1 chef in the kitchen wherever possible. This "open source" movement has sapped so much life force from many developers by forcing them to chase ideological rabbits around all day. I think it's intentional at this point too. I'm enjoying the magic of letting my framework/language vendor manage much of this circus for me. I am perfectly content being a filthy capitalist pig of a developer and paying money for my tools. Every time I can pay to outsource complexity, I am going to do it. If you are actually focused on problem solving, working with certain vendors that include most batteries can make for a significantly more productive and happy dev experience. Forcing yourself into dep management hell just so you can brag on twitter about avoiding that one evil vendor is accomplishing what, exactly? If you spend more than an hour a week worrying about dependencies, and you are trying to ship business functionality, why? Why suffer like this? Presumably the business to be implemented is already shitty enough. Why do we want to make it 10x harder with broken technology designs?