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There is a difference however between "Does all the things my snowflake app needs" and "does the top 20 most common things". The latter is easy, and even quantifiable if you have the time (to scour open source repos for use cases). When you write dozens of utilities, a few libs, and several apps, its likely the common date time use cases will be suitable for 80% of them. Rinse and repeat across numerous other dependencies, and the result is a std library you learn once, that serves 80% of your use cases just fine. Its not about no dependencies, its about dependencies focused on novel or niche problems, not common and already solved ones.