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The JS community encourages micromodules and leveraging NPM to a fault. We saw that with left-pad years ago, where such a basic function was used all over the
by TAForObvReasons 8y ago
The JS community encourages micromodules and leveraging NPM to a fault. We saw that with left-pad years ago, where such a basic function was used all over the place even though it was highly inefficient. That is a testament to how little people actually check their dependencies and just assume others vetted open source code
- Vinnl 8y agoThe npm ecosystem is the "worst" in this regard, definitely, but it would be foolhardy to assume that this is not likely to happen to you just because you're not using Javascript, or that slowing down to the level of other ecosystems would prevent this from happening to npm.