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A comment on Ask HN: Is keeping dependencies up to date wasteful?.

Re:Ask HN: Is keeping dependencies up to date wasteful? by seattle_spring on Thursday December 19, 2019 @10:43AM (#21835832)
Absolutely not. If you neglect keeping your packages up to date, it tends to get exponentially harder to upgrade them when you do need that critical bugfix.
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Re:Ask HN: Is keeping dependencies up to date wasteful? by tudelo on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:49PM (#21837284)
Yeah, this. I worked on a project that used an older version of Java, and had older versions of dependencies, and never updates because there was 'no reason'... until we hit a really nasty perf bug that was fixed in a newer version of the library... that was years newer... Made even better by the fact that it was a pretty core library and had tons of intertwined dependencies that also needed to be updated :(
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