I'm so tired of rants like these. Both the pro and anti-dependency versions. It's just impossible to express an opinion on the issue without looking at specific applications.

What I want to see is someone actually break down a real application and its dependencies and argue through what's included and what's omitted.

At least there's one example. I just think it's wrong (and I'm not the only one...https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42813003). The terminalsize crate has special behavior for illumos. The average developer should never have to think about illumos.

(Note in case Bryan Cantrill walks by: no slight towards illumos or you--you seem great, loved the Oracle rant. Illumos seems cool. It's just that most developers should not think about it).