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> I don't think the left-pad problem wasn't about package namespacing it was about the ability to unpublish packages as well the prevalence of micropackages cau
by neuromanser 3y ago
> I don't think the left-pad problem wasn't about package namespacing it was about the ability to unpublish packages as well the prevalence of micropackages caused by lack of a decent standard library.
It was "about" cavalier approach to the dependency supply chain. A dependency disappearing outright is just one of many failure modes it has.