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This is a real problem but I wouldn't blame the existence of good tooling on it. Sure you don't have this issue with C or C++, but thats because adding even a s
by juliangmp 11mo ago
This is a real problem but I wouldn't blame the existence of good tooling on it.
Sure you don't have this issue with C or C++, but thats because adding even a single dependency to a C or C++ project sucks, the tooling sucks.
I wholly blame developers who are too eager to just pull new dependencies in when they could've just written 7 lines themselves.
- r_lee 11mo agoAnd in a way I think AI can help here, where instead you get just the snippet vs having to add that dep that then becomes a long-term security liability
- jandrese 11mo agoI remember hearing a few years ago about how developers considered every line of code the wrote as a failing and talked about how modern development was just gluing otherwise maintained modules together to avoid having to maintain their own project. I thought this sounded insane and I still do.