alt Hacker NewsI've been thinking similarly, that we're quickly going to want to start minimising dependencies and code size in the programs we make to try to reduce attack surface area.
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Gibbon1 • today at 8:29 AM
I've taken to saying Donald Knuth was wrong, premature optimization isn't the root of all evil.
Dependencies are.
Part of that is reading bits and pieces of what Nancy Leveson had to say about the subject. Subsystems even when working to spec can produce spectacular failures.
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Do one thing, and do it well.
The unix philosophy prevails!