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NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency
Frivilous dependencies are the enemy of maintainability.
Let us consider this last point; how many absurdly complicated containerisation or bundling setups do we encounter in our work because someone does not want to "reinvent the wheel" and instead opts to use large, complex dependencies? Dependencies, in general, inevitably lead to supply chain attacks, safety and performance risk, and slow install times. We invest into our Zig tooling to ensure that we can tackle new problems quickly, with a minimum of accidental complexity in our local development environment.
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