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by mbrodersen 1473 days ago
Nope. Beginner developers copy-paste code they don’t understand from Google searches. Including 1000+ transitive dependencies they also don’t understand. Experienced developers are really careful adding dependencies. Only adding dependencies when the value/cost equation really makes it worth it. Most Open Source dependencies are badly maintained and a bug fix might take years or will never happen.