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ncruceslast Sunday at 8:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

But as Go puts it:

“A little copying is better than a little dependency.”

https://go-proverbs.github.io/


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threatofrainlast Sunday at 9:24 PM

Copying is just as much dependency, you just have to do maintenance through manual find-and-replace now.

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skydhashlast Sunday at 9:20 PM

Yep something like blob util could be a blog post or a gist (or several stack overflow answers). And a lot of NPM library falls under that. They always have the anemic standard library of JavaScript forgetting that the C library is even smaller.