I find this baffling coming from Ruby but it's just the norm in JS. God forbid one has a bug and you have to update a single package...https://twitter.com/sgrif/status/1138565864251244546 …
The number of dependencies in this tiny app is larger than the entire Ruby ecosystem according to https://rubygems.org/gems
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Yeah I don't understand what's causing the difference here. I disagree with people saying JS has a "lower barrier to entry" but maybe it's popularity? Maybe more similar libraries exist so one dev picks A, another picks B and we import both through dependent libraries?
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JS absolutely does have a lower barrier to entry, but I don't believe there's a causation between that and an ecosystem of turning 3 line functions into standalone libraries
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