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It's hard to tell, it probably impacts a bit, but because of incremental compilation and compile avoidance, it's probably not much if any. In any case, I would tend to think that using

implementation

dependencies when they should be

api

is an error which needs to be fixed.

yes! i agree +100. it should be considered an error that needs fixing. right on!

Thing with

api

is that it is harder to identify no longer needed dependencies. So migrating your project out of a deprecated dependency becomes a bit harder opposed to remove implementation usages.

We have the issue where many modules have copy pasted dependencies because there’s so many. Many of those are not needed