[bryanrasmussen]

the parent said something about problems being solved if there was a standard library, and if perhaps there were a standard library people would be willing to write more code instead of just adding another dependency.

I believe these points

dependencies are carefully considered by users dependencies try to be dependency-free themselves to assist with the previous point dependencies solve important domain problems, they are not trivial one-line-functions dependencies are typically developed and tested by a known team or company, which you trust, not just someone random

would be solved by the parent comment's proposed standard library.

[jfkebwjsbx]

A good standard library helps, no doubt.

However, it is not required. One of the languages mentioned was C++. That language has a tiny standard lib in comparison to Java.

So it is mainly a "cultural" thing and how projects are structured and reviewed.

[addicted]

C++ had a tiny standard library.

That’s why Boost exists (although much of its functionality has been subsumed into the std lib now).

[Volt]

True to an extent, but consider Python which has a standard library and has also seen some of these same types of security breaches.