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Comment by fennecfoxen

4 years ago

NodeJS did something a lot like this by having packages that are just short snippets, but half the ecosystem flipped out when someone messed up `leftpad`.

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fastball  4 years ago

Well that and because having 20,000 packages in your project is a PITA in various ways.

Mostly but not entirely because NPM handled things poorly in various ways.

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