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This is a slight misnomer in my opinion. When those dependencies are bundled into Node you have fewer listed dependencies, yes, but you haven't actually reduced
by Etheryte 4y ago
This is a slight misnomer in my opinion. When those dependencies are bundled into Node you have fewer listed dependencies, yes, but you haven't actually reduced the amount of external code you rely on.
- christophilus 4y agoYou have a single vendor to worry about— like Microsoft when you use .NET, Google when you use Go, etc. You obviously will always have external dependencies unless you build everything from your own hardware up. But it’s clearly a win to vet and trust one vendor, and have one solid, trusted platform to build on vs pulling in literally thousands of dependencies from random vendors as is common in most JS stacks.
- Etheryte 4y agoThat's a fair point. Currently I'm not convinced all of this is the right direction for Node, but we'll see how it pans out. Node is already huge so I would much rather they pick their battles and do those features well, rather than try and be mediocre at everything.