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> But if you need to bring in 100 different libs (because you bring in 10 libs which in turn brings in 10 libs

So don’t?

With manual deps management, everyone soon gravitates to a core set of deps. And libraries developer tends to reduce their deps needs, That’s why you see most C libraries deals with file formats, protocols, and broad concerns. Smaller algorithms can be shared with gists and blog articles.

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> Smaller algorithms can be shared with gists and blog articles

You just invented a worse Stack Overflow.

Using libraries is good, actually.

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Like is-even or leftpad?
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Like requests and pytest and ruff and so on, yes.

Rewriting the world to protect against a specific kind of threat is insane.

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