It's funny that Rachel lists these libraries as the dependencies she's willing to use after demeaning developers that use a lot of dependencies in their work. It just feels like she's completely out of touch with what the job responsibilities are at a startup. Or what it's like to code every day in an interpreted high level language like Javascript or Ruby or Python. Of course you're going to use dependencies in Javascript because you're not going to make a syscall to libcurl to make a web request. If you seriously expect libcurl to be the level of dependency that is acceptable in your code of course you are doing a different job than I am. But please do not demean my work as "VendorOps" [0] because I have to focus on the business logic of the domain problem my company works on.
0. https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/08/14/jobs/