• Randelung@lemmy.world
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    Seems to me the only reason for these kind of dependencies to exist in the first place is that people really, really, really, REALLY can’t code.

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      Well javascript is the default language of the web, so no surprise it attracts a lot of newbies.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah but if noobs use it as a dependency, who made the package?

        And what projects are noobs working on that trigger 440GB of weekly traffic?

        I fear most noobs remain noobs.

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          Don’t ask me, all these one-line packages are ridiculous, cause greater issues than whatever they solve, and are (part of) the reason why js and it’s ecosystem are not considered seriously by other developers.

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      this is exactly the kind of thing the senior engineers above me at my last job would use… Their code made me cry