Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

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?

I mean I could see that argument, but that's not where we are now. In the time when I was writing a lot more JS most of what you saw were things like moment.js and underscore, which are reasonable sizes for that sort of library

I agree, but it'd have to by necessity. Underscore is at least 200-300 libraries in the NPM world, not including transitive dependencies. :)

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