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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But why would Elm be any different? (I understand that it is, but there's no rational reason I can see that this has happened to JS and not other languages, esp things that compile to JS where the anemic std lib argument doesn't even really apply)
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That's what's so interesting/frustrating here. Why did it happen to JS but nowhere else? JS didn't always have this culture. What changed? Why hasn't every popular language since NPM took off had the same effect?
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