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Can you link to a description of "the leftpad disaster"? Also - it's not supposed to be "tons of random stuff", it's supposed to be the libraries you're relyin
by einpoklum 6y ago
Can you link to a description of "the leftpad disaster"?
Also - it's not supposed to be "tons of random stuff", it's supposed to be the libraries you're relying on. Maybe I'm missing something in the point you're making?
- eeZah7Ux 6y agoRandom link: https://www.davidhaney.io/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how-to-program/ https://www.davidhaney.io/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how... > it's supposed to be the libraries you're relying on When an ecosystem has poor engineering practices and encourages small libraries with many dependencies you get a quadratic explosion of indirect dependencies. You might not care about having 100 transitive dependencies until a poor soul has to maintain your code in 4 or 10 years from now.