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How to deal with fear of taking dependencies

The team I'm in creates components that can be used by the company's partners to integrate with our platform. As such, I agree we should take extreme care when introducing (third-party) dependencies. ...
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What is the correct way of adding third-party code into a C or C++ project?

I want to incorporate some open source libraries into my C project. This is the first time I do that, so I don't know what is the right or most common way of doing it. I see two possible paths I can ...
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What's a good way to manage my code's dependencies on libraries without releases?

I'm writing this small utility, FOSS but not intended for wide deployment, packaging in OS distributions etc. My utility depends on several libraries - some are header-only (it's C++), some are ...
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Including a library to use one function / utility classes

At my place of employment I have noticed a weird thing where developers will include largish libraries to do simple things. To be clear we're a Scala shop. Here are two examples that occured : 1) In ...
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