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Node's culture of tiny libraries is overstated. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30989539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30989539 What standard l

• infamia 5y ago
  > Node's culture of tiny libraries is overstated. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30989539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30989539 You need thousands of packages for a pretty standard React application (which requires hundreds of base packages). That's a cultural problem in Node's packaging community that injects risk into the packaging ecosystem. > What standard libs are you comparing? Node's to what other language? I've seen so many commenters say this, but still not sure what the magical thing that can't be achieved with Node built-ins is... Brandon Eich himself has said that JS has a purposefully small standard library. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3048833/brendan-eich-javascript-standard-library-will-stay-small.html https://www.infoworld.com/article/3048833/brendan-eich-javas... JS' standard library is small compared with Python's for example. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... https://docs.python.org/3/library/ https://docs.python.org/3/library/