One of the worst UI ever
One of the worst UI ever
Posted Jan 29, 2026 8:58 UTC (Thu) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)In reply to: One of the worst UI ever by hmh
Parent article: A critical GnuPG security update
We should reconsider the use of the term "dependency hell", especially if people just use it as a synonym for "large number of dependencies" because a lot of languages with small numbers of dependencies have small numbers because the cost of starting a new dependency is high due to bad tooling and as a result each dependency is huge and contains a lot of code any given user of that dependency does not use and that nobody has touched for years.
This is just a worse way to structure the same amount of dependency code because we can't easily talk about individual parts of the code in dependencies.
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