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The entire Front end dev seems like trust me bro Wild West to me. All feels like endless layers of duct tape. Which I guess in a way it is given the evolution o
by Havoc 1y ago
The entire Front end dev seems like trust me bro Wild West to me. All feels like endless layers of duct tape. Which I guess in a way it is given the evolution of browsers
- graemep 1y agoit seems a lot worse with NPM for some reason, but the underlying weaknesses apply to language package managers in general too.
- johnisgood 1y agoI think it is worse with npm because there are more people using it and more people know about it. Lowering the barrier to entry is not paying off, for sure.
- quails8mydog 1y agoI think part of the reason is the embrace of an "each package should do exactly one thing" by many in the community, often taken to a ridiculous extreme. Possibly better now after left-pad and other similar incidents.
- augusto-moura 1y agoThis is true for every moser package manager out there: pip, cargo, gradle and the lot. It is not about front end dev
- nightski 1y agoI've seen gnarly code everywhere, from kernel drivers to desktop applications to web apps. At the end of the day this describes most of computing imho.