Great blog post about the fragility of open source: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/12/22/software-crisis.html. Personally, I think we really need to focus on making software simpler rather than just piling on so much complexity that hundreds of dependencies are even needed in the first place
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Unnecessary dependencies are how developers re-toot each other's toots. (And including packages in their repositories is how they follow each other.)
