>I think it 's because of the number of young/unexperienced developers in the field. I honestly think this is it. Webdev has an inordinate amount of "let's rew

>I think it 's because of the number of young/unexperienced developers in the field. I honestly think this is it. Webdev has an inordinate amount of "let's rewrite it... again!" But the thing that really cinched the webdev community isn't ready for primetime was the whole left-pad debacle. Auto updating of dependencies is bush league bullshit, and the whole rotten edifice came predictably crashing down because of it.