I agree that there are things with too many dependencies and I try to avoid that. I think it is a good idea to minimize how many dependencies are needed (even i

I agree that there are things with too many dependencies and I try to avoid that. I think it is a good idea to minimize how many dependencies are needed (even indirect dependencies; however, in some cases a dependency is not a specific implementation, and in that case indirect dependencies are less of a problem, although having a good implementation with less indirect dependencies is still beneficial). I may write my own, in many cases. However, another reason for writing my own is because of other kind of problems in the existing programs. Not all problems are malicious; many are just that they do not do what I need, or do too much more than what I need, or both. (However, most of my stuff is C rather than JavaScript; the problem seems to be more severe with JavaScript, but I do not use that much.)