Friday's xkcd is blunt but fair: it's very hard to secure any part of a modern computer stack, and we depend on all of it:
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The main advantage AIUI is that you don't depend on new glibc features, so you get a more portable executable.
Cunning trick to ease upgrades in Rust. Each semver upgrade is a distinct type, but a library can depend on an older version of itself and preserve the types!
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JS projects can accumulate a ton of dependencies, but TIL that npm can explain why you have them. `npm explain foo` or `npm why foo` shows the dependency path to foo.
Super handy when you weren't expecting to depend on something.