[guhidalg]

I agree with you, you're not wrong, but the people who use this argument are not arguing pragmatically. I believe this the "no dependency" argument is used by folks who want to virtue signal that they are "real programmers" because they don't use dependencies (ignore the kernel and all the drivers in it!!!) and instead use 100% stand-alone "free" software.

Just know that you're very much not alone :)

[samhw]

Yeah, I'm sorry you're being downvoted. I totally agree and I'll sign myself up for getting downvoted too. There's nothing I hate more than cargo-cult programming and cargo-cult thinking, which always takes the form of these unthinking quarter-correct maxims like "dependencies are bad!", or "state in your server is bad!", or "O(1) algorithms are better than O(n) - so use my algorithm that achieves constant time by iterating over everything in the known universe!".

It's not just not thinking pragmatically, it's not thinking tout court. It's a thought-terminating cliché. It's trying to reduce problem X to universal solution Y because you don't trust yourself to genuinely think it through. It's the programming equivalent of Reddit neckbeards who regurgitate (semi-accurate) names of logical fallacies from Wikipedia rather than actually evaluating the other person's argument.

[johnny22]

I'd say that's a huge part, which is why i dismiss most, but not all of their arguments.

I think the supply chain concerns is real and important though.