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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nobody is arguing that you should never depend on anything and create everything yourself, but adding a dependency for literally a one liner function is awful. Like one of the Go proverbs goes, a little copying is better than a little dependency.

[โ€“] sukhmel 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, there's mention of doing the opposite in C++ community in a neighbouring thread