I am pretty new to development, and I keep trying to prove myself wrong over my apprehension to willy-nilly accumulate dependencies just because “the time savings add up”.
Before starting any new project, I research and try all the existing similar projects I can find. I can predict their stability with overwhelming precision just by glancing at the dependencies, so the few projects I have built use only the most vanilla version of mainstream dependencies.
And another result of this observation has been that I have come to devalue the word of devs with that happy-go-lucky approach to dependency accumulation. It seems to correlate with the exaggerated optimism that persists around everything in the development community. I’d like to be more optimistic just like everyone else, but ignoring debt like this doesn’t seem like the right way to do it.
Before starting any new project, I research and try all the existing similar projects I can find. I can predict their stability with overwhelming precision just by glancing at the dependencies, so the few projects I have built use only the most vanilla version of mainstream dependencies.
And another result of this observation has been that I have come to devalue the word of devs with that happy-go-lucky approach to dependency accumulation. It seems to correlate with the exaggerated optimism that persists around everything in the development community. I’d like to be more optimistic just like everyone else, but ignoring debt like this doesn’t seem like the right way to do it.