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The amount of software depended on is always going to be massive, its not like every developer is going to write a BIOS, kernel, drivers, networking stack, comp
by pabs3 2y ago
The amount of software depended on is always going to be massive, its not like every developer is going to write a BIOS, kernel, drivers, networking stack, compilers, interpreters, and so on for every project. So there will always be a massive iceberg of other people's code underneath what each developer writes.
- TZubiri 2y agoSure, but all of those you mentioned are part of a base OS. I'm not sure what the fallacy is called, but you say we have an excess of X and then the fallacy is "we can't live without X". Modern projects especially in the javascript realm have like 10K dependencies. Having one dependency in an Operating System(even though it may itself have their own dependencies) is a huuuuuuuuuge difference. You can pay cash money to Windows or Red Hat and have either a company that owns all of the deps, or a company that vets all of the dependencies, distributes some cash through donations, and provides a sensible base package. It may sound extreme, but you don't need much more than a Base OS. If you reaaallly want something else, you can check the OS official package repository. Downloading some third party code is what's extreme to me.