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by shadowgovt 1681 days ago
When I'm writing desktop software, I don't have to worry about whether yaml adds a dependency that I can't afford to maintain.

People who develop web apps want that level of convenience. And if we can't solve the security problem in a distributed fashion, web development will end up owned by big players who can pay the money to solve the problem in a centralized fashion.
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pdonis 1681 days ago
> When I'm writing desktop software, I don't have to worry about whether yaml adds a dependency that I can't afford to maintain.

Why not? Because some big, centralized player has put the time, effort, and money into making yaml part of a complete library that gives you everything you need to write desktop software. Nobody writes desktop software by importing thousands of tiny libraries from all over the Internet.

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shadowgovt 1681 days ago
I agree. As I said at the top of this thread,

> That's going to be incompatible with writing interesting software on the web, unless we want to just hand the problem over to a handful of big players who can afford to hand-vet 10,000 dependencies.

Consolidating into a distro-management-style solution would be one option.

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