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.
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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There is a reason why Ryan Dahl made that "Sorry for NPM video". If his new Deno project gains traction, I guess we'll get a better ecosystem. Also, there were always some form of "reusable components that is not a lib" experiments. Latest one @ http://bit.dev
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Experiment results: so far so good :)
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My guess is concern for bundle size before tree-shaking was popular/effective
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