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by andrezsanchez 4153 days ago
That's an interesting perspective. I don't have any inherent problems with large libraries, but my problem with some of these 'monoliths' is that other libraries start to depend on the entire library when they only need a small piece of functionality that the library provides.

Substack wrote an article [1] explaining some of the problems that monolithic libraries cause in an ecosystem.

[1] http://substack.net/many_things

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thanks, I'll check that out.