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by tomaszsobota 768 days ago
That is better, I agree. I'd take a lean set of dependencies any day, but it becomes increasingly more difficult the more velocity the project gets.

Suddenly less and less is considered core and it's easier than ever to 'outsource' to external libs to save time. Or is it rather that the project gets more velocity because of that?

> We just pretend we have a bit of control but in reality nobody knows what code is executed really and this is sad.

True, this is also slowly starting to be the case with other languages. With Python it can be so bad that even attempting to 'build' and run the same project a year later may well fail. Much to what I'm used to with JavaScript projects by now.