Comment by realusername
5 hours ago
The reason it's worse in the js ecosystem is that you need way more packages than your average language to build anything functional.
5 hours ago
The reason it's worse in the js ecosystem is that you need way more packages than your average language to build anything functional.
You don't really need more packages. There's definitely a culture of creating ridiculously small packages, though.
If you spend enough time in the ecosystem, you'll begin to realise that a select few are very well known for doing this; one in particular made a package for every ANSI terminal colour.
left-pad (and quite a few incidents afterwards) were definitely wakeup calls, and I like to think we've listened in some ways.