Dependencies

Dependency management.Nobody wants to think about it. We just want this stuff to work.It is one of the nasty sneaky unsolved problems in software. Each language system says, we’ve got a package manager and a build tool. This is how dependencies work. Some are better than others (I <3 Elm; npm OMG) but none of …

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May I please have inlining for small dependencies?

Franklin Webber[1]  went on a quest to find out whetherutility code was better or worse than core code in open sourceprojects. Utility code is defined as anything necessary but not directly related to the application’smission. Franklin found that overall quality of utility code was higher, perhaps because this code changes less. He also found a lot …

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