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npm host half a million packages. It is impossible to manually QA anything. People also rename and re-publish unmaintained packages pretty often. The problem i
by Chyzwar 9y ago
npm host half a million packages. It is impossible to manually QA anything. People also rename and re-publish unmaintained packages pretty often.
The problem is JS that lack sensible standard library. Node is at fault.
- tedunangst 9y agoA problem that exists because there was no QA to start... Instead we get "awesome" lists of "curated" packages on github, which does nothing to solve the problem.
- Jach 9y agoHalf a million, is that all? Levels of QA exist. As pointed out by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14905660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14905660 it would take very little to require something like a bug report that's then had various levels signed off on.