I hope that whatever solutions we come up with to handle the too-many-dependencies problem don’t stifle people’s motivation to create and share new packages. It’s not a given that useful libraries are going to exist. Too much friction and people will just stop sharing code.
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Rolling my own code to do basic things makes the examples worse, because the point is to illustrate how to use the library and any boilerplate is just noise. Including e.g. code to open a window on Win32 would scare potential users away. So I think dependencies are nuanced.
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Is there anyone arguing that dependencies aren't nuanced? Are we actually in disagreement here? Like, I don't get why we're debating this on twitter. It's a subtle issue. I'm trying to write a blog post on dependency selection and management. It is not small. :)
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