> Zig users tend to be (possibly notoriously) anti-dependency.

I don't get anti-dependency, to be honest. Like say you want REGEX support in your database. You code a REGEX parser from scratch? What are the odds your parser doesn't have a vulnerability?

I think over zealous dependency usage is also bad, but it cuts both ways

The post says they use pandoc for parsing, that’s a very good trade for being able to cut Node completely out of your project