I think the JavaScript/npm world has trained a generation of devs that high dependency counts are a code smell. This can be true, of course, but that's largely because of external factors.
In a perfect world, a language's ecosystem would have a tiny stdlib and allow importing of libraries for everything else. The Linux philosophy would be followed strictly.
The problem is just that the overhead in securing, maintaining, and organizing all those libraries is pretty large, as we've seen by npm's repeated failures. Of course the *nix community seems to have largely solved the problem, but there's also a massive culture of volunteerism benefiting them.
In a perfect world, a language's ecosystem would have a tiny stdlib and allow importing of libraries for everything else. The Linux philosophy would be followed strictly.
The problem is just that the overhead in securing, maintaining, and organizing all those libraries is pretty large, as we've seen by npm's repeated failures. Of course the *nix community seems to have largely solved the problem, but there's also a massive culture of volunteerism benefiting them.