> It's weird their promotional video repeats "you can do <million things> without installing dependencies", A couple years ago a common complaint was that the

> It's weird their promotional video repeats "you can do <million things> without installing dependencies", A couple years ago a common complaint was that the JavaScript ecosystem relied too heavily on dependencies for everything. Remember the left-pad incident where the developer deleted the popular dependency out of protest for reasons I can even remember? Or when colors.js was sabotaged to break everything that depended on it? The node-ipc package was sabotaged to delete files on developer’s machines. Then we had a wave of supply chain attacks that tried to insert malware into build scripts of popular dependencies. So the ecosystem started moving toward more batteries-included style development in response.