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Adam Crockett πŸŒ€
Adam Crockett πŸŒ€

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βœ‹Explain Software Dependency

I need your help, I have a sentence to write and it's not coming easily.

Can you tell me what you think a software Dependency is in 5 lines or less.

I will be forever dependant on you πŸ˜‚

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Ben Halpern β€’

A software dependency is some code that you need to run other code. Your code depends on it to work.

Dependencies also have dependencies. A pepperoni Pizza depends on pepperoni to function. The pepperoni itself depends on cows, pigs and a bunch of salt?

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Adam Crockett πŸŒ€ β€’

Bravo Ben, most kind, I like the pizza πŸ• example too.

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Jilcimar Fernandes β€’

Dependency is an external piece of code that your system needs to function. They can be used in production or simply to assist in development.

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Adam Crockett πŸŒ€ β€’

Jilcimar that's cool how you have covered different contexts for usage, thank you for this.

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