> These tools aren't the simplest things, but so is everything, everywhere. No. An insanely complex Eclipse based Java product I maintained had hundreds of dep

> These tools aren't the simplest things, but so is everything, everywhere. No. An insanely complex Eclipse based Java product I maintained had hundreds of dependencies (including transitive), from a handful of vendors (> 20). Apparently, an simple JS app[0] can have 40000 packages (from hundreds of vendors). This is insane. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55416657/why-do-i-have-40000-packages-in-my-angular-7-project-how-to-remove-unused-depe https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55416657/why-do-i-have-4...