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 agree, but it'd have to by necessity. Underscore is at least 200-300 libraries in the NPM world, not including transitive dependencies. :)
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I still don't necessarily think that the SRP argument leads to this level of extremism though. And TBH anyone using "the unix mindset" as an argument for microlibraries should look at the line count (or just the manpage) of all the unix utilities they use to elevate this argument
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`sort` as an NPM package. There are at least 50 packages covering the various available options. On top of that there are another 25 that are non-configurable, claiming to be the "default sort". 68 of these are unmaintained but don't indicate as such. 72 are 0.x
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