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Re:It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android by orangecat on Thursday October 13, 2016 @10:04AM (#12700809)
If you're using N separate libraries, that's N times the likelihood of breaking changes that force you to migrate at inconvenient times, and O(N^2) opportunities for bugs caused by incompatibilities.
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Re:It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android by hinkley on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:35PM (#12701995)
Two libraries can misbehave because they share a common dependency.

If you assume a roughly logarithmic intersection of shared dependencies that's O(N^2 log n) chances for a bug. But in some communities I'm sure even that is optimistic.

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