But there it can be so much better, or so much worse. Worse is Node.js (not bothering with the unanswerable question: Why Node.js?) thousands and thousands of

But there it can be so much better, or so much worse. Worse is Node.js (not bothering with the unanswerable question: Why Node.js?) thousands and thousands of package downloads. Long chains of transitive dependencies. A long storied history of security/reliability catastrophes. I love Rust. But I have always thought having the compiler download dependencies is a very bad idea. It would be much better if the programmer had to deliberately install the dependencies. Then there would be an incentive to have less dependencies. This is currently a shit show, because it is easier to write than read, to talk than listen. New generations of programmers refuse to learn the lessons of their forebears and repeat all their mistakes, harder, bigger, faster