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Sure, just like most men aren't violent criminals but men are still statistically more likely to be violent criminals. The point is that JS devs seem (perhaps a
by HideousKojima 5y ago
Sure, just like most men aren't violent criminals but men are still statistically more likely to be violent criminals. The point is that JS devs seem (perhaps a proper statistical study will show otherwise) more likely per capita to shit up their ecosystem. There are several reasons contributing to this (the limited JS standard lib being a big one) but a major part of it really seems to be that JS devs are a different breed.
I've never seen controversies like this in the .NET/Nuget ecosystem, the only controversies I've ever seen there are over libraries changing licenses to make the authors more money, and controversies over Microsoft exercising too much control over the ecosystem.
- devmunchies 5y ago> men are still statistically more likely to be violent criminals I think your meant criminals are more likely to be men.
- HideousKojima 5y agoNo, I meant exactly what I said, more men are violent criminals per capita than women. What you said is also true, but it's not what I meant.
- krsrhe 5y ago
- NhanH 5y agoMoreover, unless we are talking about a very unusual subset of the population, the ratio of men:women is always almost 1:1, which renders the two statement functionally equivalent
- lobocinza 5y agoThey're equivalent, in this case.
- gruez 5y agoThey're both talking about the same phenomena and are technically correct, but the framing is different. Specifically, the latter wording tries to defuse blame on males.
- devmunchies 5y agoOh you meant in relation to women. I misinterpreted that you were saying if you pick 10 men, then over 5 of them are violent criminals.
- Tade0 5y ago> but a major part of it really seems to be that JS devs are a different breed. Can you really make such generalizations considering there are millions of JS devs, some of them not working exclusively in this language?
- pbourke 5y ago> I've never seen controversies like this in the .NET/Nuget ecosystem Some .NET ecosystem projects have put political messages on their documentation over the past couple of years.
- gs17 5y agoI think they meant "controversies" more in the "adding malware to a common dependency" sense.
- throwaway7033 5y agoHere are some package counts(http://www.modulecounts.com/ http://www.modulecounts.com/) for different platforms: * npm - (1,916,619) * Maven - (465,713) * NuGet - (299,957) npm has about 2.5 times the number of packages as Maven and NuGet combined; it's not surprising that it has more drama than other ecosystems.