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> Sure, but that means I won't write my project, because I won't write those things from scratch. You need to think a bit harder about that, to help you decide
by antonvs 2y ago
> Sure, but that means I won't write my project, because I won't write those things from scratch.
You need to think a bit harder about that, to help you decide whether your position is rational.
- MeetingsBrowser 2y agoThis confuses me as well. Is the implied solution to choose a language where you are forced to write those things from scratch?
- palata 2y agoMy point is that if, in the language, everybody is incentivise to use fewer dependencies, then a random library that I would not write myself (because it is an entire project in itself) would have fewer dependencies. Because it is not the case, either I take that library and accept its transitive dependencies, or I don't have a library at all. In Rust, I'm sometimes actually tempted to wrap a C/C++ library (and its few dependencies) instead of getting the Rust alternative (and its gazillion dependencies).
- palata 2y agoAnd you need to think a bit about that (probably not very hard), to help you decide whether I'm irrational or whether you may not have totally understood my point.