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I think some of your experiences can be explained by your citing NPM as representative of FOSS. Not that there's anything wrong with the astonishing breadth of
by DrewADesign 4y ago
I think some of your experiences can be explained by your citing NPM as representative of FOSS. Not that there's anything wrong with the astonishing breadth of functionality available in the NPM ecosystem, but stability isn't its strongest comparative suit. OTOH, Django, which was cited by the author, just doesn't have that kind of volatility in its base features.
- tbrownaw 4y ago> Not that there's anything wrong with the astonishing breadth of functionality available in the NPM ecosystem There are at least two things wrong. One is those things is missing standard functionality (eg, leftpad), and the other is a failure to maintain appropriate hubris (eg, is_even).
- DrewADesign 4y agoI don't think those are criticisms of the repository, are they? They seem like criticisms of modern Javascript.
- sbf501 4y agoTrue. I should have been more clear because NPM =/= FOSS.