That&#x27;s a pretty significant special case though. I&#x27;d be willing to go with the advice &quot;If you get as big as Google&#x27;s codebase, be sure to trim the dependencies on your statically-bound languages too.&quot; But you probably have a ways to go before that&#x27;s an engineering concern for your project.<p>(... note that one could make a similar argument for more runtime-dynamic languages. I won&#x27;t disagree, other than to observe that as a lone engineer, I&#x27;ve managed to code myself into a corner with dependencies in Rails ;) ).