The ensloppification of D is a grave mistake

[Alexandru Ermicioi]

On Monday, 6 July 2026 at 18:18:29 UTC, Lance Bachmeier wrote:
> This is an excellent argument in favor of AI. I've attempted to 
> run code from others that had more than a hundred dependencies 
> that had to be installed. In some cases, it was hundreds of 
> dependencies. I recently ran someone's Python code and had to 
> create an environment with over 700 MB of dependencies. Most of 
> the time, it's "I need this one small function, and I know it's 
> in this library over here", so they add it as a dependency. 
> That one library might have 25 dependencies of its own. If AI 
> can rid us of this mess, the more AI the better.

This someone has a bad balance of cost vs benefits ratio if he 
imports a behemoth just for it's toe.

Such things if possible should be rejected as soon as its seen.