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But this is exactly my point. Some dependencies don't actually save you any time, they're trivial to write yourself, so there is no point in getting them (perhaps the most absurd and infamous example of this being left-pad). Other dependencies are extremely hard to write, so finding a version someone else built, even if they are not maintaining it anymore, is worth it.


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