Yes, this is the sort of thing that scares me away from Ruby.<p>I&#x27;m worried this sort of &quot;screw it just add a library&quot; is going to spread further in my language of choice: Java.<p>In my time doing open source programming on the side, I&#x27;ve found that it has become more common with the advent of things like mvn and gradle to just slather on layers to your stack even for the simple tasks.<p>Need a function to turn a byte buffer into a string? Download these 3 Apache commons libraries and their dependencies.<p>I understand if you are relying on a large portion of a library and you need to use it, but why bring an entire library in for one function.