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Levitating ◴[] No.45948952[source]
I am sure I am not the only one who thinks these micro-dependencies are worthless anyway. You'd be better off just listing the functions in a markdown file for people to copy over than ship an entire package for it.

This isn't "small" open source, "small" would be something you put together in a week or weekend. These are like "micro" projects, where more work goes into actually publishing and maintaining the repository than actually writing the library.

I like the approach C sometimes takes, with the "tiny header file" type of libraries. Though I guess that also stems from the lack of a central build system.

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1. jan_Sate ◴[] No.45955108[source]
This. The code is like 10 lines long. I might as well copy that from Stackoverflow and adapt that for my own use. Why bother packaging that?