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As an online community gets larger, the probability of a member deserving a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1? That the JS community is huge an
by andrewaylett 7y ago
As an online community gets larger, the probability of a member deserving a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1?
That the JS community is huge and overwhelmingly newer to the industry than (for example) me does not excuse bad behaviour. What it _does_ excuse is a lack of awareness of history and historical context. And the solution to that is education.
It pains me to see so many wheel-reinventions, both technical and social. But the flip side is that people who don't know something's not supposed to be possible will _sometimes_ manage to do it anyway.
NPM, on the other hand, seemed very much to be all about package management being a simple problem, and learned the hard way that there's a reason why other systems have more complexity.