For people who enjoy the controlled flight into terrain that is the modern Javascript ecosystem, here's a "postmortem" on another one-function Javascript "library" like left-pad that broke everyone's build:https://medium.com/@forbeslindesay/is-promise-post-mortem-cab807f18dcc …
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(and if you're curious how absurd this kind of programming has become, here's the entirety of the "library" that you get by depending on is-promise: https://github.com/then/is-promise/blob/master/index.js …)
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Replying to @cmuratori
The key thing you're missing is that lines of code != complexity of problem. This repository frequently gets people submitting changes that they think are perf improvements or simplifications, but that actually introduce bugs.
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Replying to @ForbesLindesay
I can personally assure you that I am not missing anything.
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