> outside of specialized/embedded systems. I think you're conflating platforms and dependencies. The OS it runs on is a platform that the the user already trus

> outside of specialized/embedded systems. I think you're conflating platforms and dependencies. The OS it runs on is a platform that the the user already trusts, left-pad is a dependency the developers are responsible for. There's some grey area like electron or the JVM but even there electron sticks out as a huge binary blob the user isn't explicitly asked to install.