2 ms·

I don't buy your argument that "the virtues of copying code go away" in any way, shape or form. It seems somewhat arrogant to me to think that people have spen

• pcwalton 11y ago
  This doesn't seem responsive to my argument at all. I'm speaking from experience with a package manager that was specifically designed up front to avoid the left-pad issue (before left-pad even was a thing). In that environment, dependencies, even small ones, are great. With an overrides feature and lockfiles, you get all the benefit of copying code (ability to hack on it, responsibility for updates, reproducible builds) without the hassles of copying code and trying to stay in sync with upstream. Copying code isn't something you have to spend decades to invent. Rather, I see it as giving up on proper package management. There are coherent arguments that package managers aren't worth it (though I disagree with them), but I don't agree that it's arrogant to try to build package managers that scale up and down, any more than any attempt to use software to solve an engineering problem is arrogant.