Not just GH. People add StackOverflow snippets, pretty blindly, and pull directly from personally-published repos.
I know what an unpopular opinion this is, with the HN crowd, but I think we need to completely reevaluate our dependence on dependencies.
I have run into people that Literally. Can't. Write. Code, without dependencies. Their skill is at passing LeetCode tests, and googling for dependencies. Their bosses like them, because they pass the interviews with flying colors, and get results really quickly.
I remember, a number of years ago, attending a meetup, promising to explain GraphQL, and, instead, it was a lecture on using a JavaScript GraphQL wrapper. I don't think that two minutes were devoted to the API, itself. I seemed to be the only person in the room, that was going "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"
For myself, I use a lot of dependencies, but I wrote almost all of them, myself. I have spent years, building a library of SDKs and modules that I can integrate into my shipping projects.
I have only two external dependencies, in my current projects. These are not ones that would kill me, if I was forced to go alone, but they do save a lot of time (an Apple Keychain wrapper in Swift, and a streaming JSON parser in PHP, for the record).
I know what an unpopular opinion this is, with the HN crowd, but I think we need to completely reevaluate our dependence on dependencies.
I have run into people that Literally. Can't. Write. Code, without dependencies. Their skill is at passing LeetCode tests, and googling for dependencies. Their bosses like them, because they pass the interviews with flying colors, and get results really quickly.
I remember, a number of years ago, attending a meetup, promising to explain GraphQL, and, instead, it was a lecture on using a JavaScript GraphQL wrapper. I don't think that two minutes were devoted to the API, itself. I seemed to be the only person in the room, that was going "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"
For myself, I use a lot of dependencies, but I wrote almost all of them, myself. I have spent years, building a library of SDKs and modules that I can integrate into my shipping projects.
I have only two external dependencies, in my current projects. These are not ones that would kill me, if I was forced to go alone, but they do save a lot of time (an Apple Keychain wrapper in Swift, and a streaming JSON parser in PHP, for the record).