Containers is becoming the way to build stuff, partly for that reason.
I think any dependency adds a level of burden, but some things are better delegated to library. I think crypto is a good case, btw I think OpenSSL is not the only one lib for TLS with curl.
> Containers is becoming the way to build stuff, partly for that reason.
This sits wrong with me, but thinking about it: I rewrote the sentence about containers in my comment three times before posting it and it still doesn't sound compelling. Maybe you have a point here.