XSF Discussion - 2019-12-25

Hello guys

Whats NIH?

"Not Invented Here", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here

both extremes are wrong in my opinion

sometimes its best to depend on an existing project

but if i end up with 72 dependencys on different projects

this can lead also to problems

72, you're too kind

72 dependencies? Those are rookie numbers, you gotta pump those up

In JavaScript, some people are trying to do 4k demos.

That is, making a software in less than 4k dependencies.

4k, insane :D

at this point can anyone really tell what they are shipping?

Can you even make a todo app with only 4k deps?

lovetox, when you need a dependency to know if a given integer is even, which itself uses a dependency to know if the integer is odd, you can guess how deep this madness goes.

Don't forget the dependency to check if it's even an integer in the first place, itself needing a dependecy to know it it's a number.

But it's only two clicks from npm! That's faster than writing your own is_number() function!

Oh, you use dependencies by clicking on them now?

Don't you know the game of whack-a-dependency?