How do you vet and security check them all? Any process one can put in place scales badly with the number of dependencies.
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For example, a *lot* of the reason software is so unfriendly to non-Latin language speakers is because people who speak those languages just homebrew their text handling instead of using libraries. This is manifestly unfair to most of the world.
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there is an important third category of options, which is to reproduce the desired functionality of a library. good text handling is important to users, so it is equally important that more programmers practice the implementation of good text-handling libraries (from scratch).
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Not just fewer/more, but whether there's any connection to some kind of trust-chain you .. trust. Like do you exercise _no_ discrimination between the sources of your software? If someone just points to a random URL and says "install this", do you click the link? Surely not.
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