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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I really want to see some kind of serious study asking why this has happened this way rather than lots of off the cuff shade being thrown around. I feel as a consumer of this ecosystem that I don't have control.
I do too. The most common answer I see is that JS has an anemic std library, but I don't think that really gets at the core of it at all
