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re: Bernhardt's tweet — > This is exactly what many of us predicted when NPM introduced a world of thousands of separate dependencies per app. The main reactio
by jw1224 7y ago
re: Bernhardt's tweet —
> This is exactly what many of us predicted when NPM introduced a world of thousands of separate dependencies per app. The main reactions to that skepticism were "stop being so negative" and "don't try to stop progress."
I'm sure "many of us" predicted planes would crash when they first took flight, but nonetheless the benefits of commercial air travel vastly outweigh the risks.
npm, having been a huge benefit to developers and the JS ecosystem for many years, should not have its problems dismissed with an "I told you so" attitude.
- drngdds 7y agoThe problems with the JS ecosystem probably could have been solved in a way that doesn't involve every nontrivial project dynamically downloading thousands of transitive dependencies by god-knows-who. It's not like package repositories and dependency management were uncharted waters before npm came along.