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Software programmer usually need to solve specific task, not worlds problems. If you go too generalized you will need 10x, 100x or 1000x more amount of time and code.

Look at Big tech, this is what they are doing, they employ thousands workers that write millions of lines of code every day, only to make it work for every case in a world. And still can't compete with specialized solution.

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> Software programmer usually need to solve specific task, not worlds problems. If you go too generalized you will need 10x, 100x or 1000x more amount of time and code.

Yes, I accept this is true, but your earlier claim was much more specific: that using dependencies at all makes things worse. I gave you a specific example (GUI libraries) but you completely ignored it. How does your 0-dependencies theory survive an encounter with that basic example?

It's usually needed only minor part of it. You dont need to code whole GUI library. Only what you need to solve specific task.

No, but if your GUI involves displaying text in multiple languages (i.e., virtually everything), you now need to become an expert in text rendering (which implies a significant breadth of knowledge in linguistics, graphics programming, constraint solving systems [for things like word wrapping], etc).

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