I tried writing some JavaScript today. I tried not to add any frivolous dependencies. I ended up with 18k dependencies. This is not a joke.
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npm is easy and convenient, that's why.
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I'd say big reasons are that Ruby and Rust have solid standard libraries and at least Ruby's runtime does not support multiple versions of the same library
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Yeah, definitely a lot of things seem to stand in for what seems like it should be in the standard library. It gets exacerbated by the multiple incompatible ways of doing similar things in different contexts with no attempt to create a unified API for it
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Then I guess it's because Javascript has a lower barrier to entry and less experience folks don't care about that sort of things.
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