In this thread: people starting to get mad about stuff I was mad about 4 years ago.https://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/51974o/the_cost_of_small_modules_in_the_javascript/ …
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Replying to @tomdale
The best part about being ahead on the caremad curve is you have extra time to resign yourself to your fate.
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the real issue is that npm, which people credit for the small module revolution, is unusually bad at small modules.
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Surely small modules create their own issues, like a nightmarish dependency tree…
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Replying to @mootpointer @tomdale
dependency trees are a problem ;) representing a graph as a tree works until it doesn't. Then you have nightmares.
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That’s fair. Personally I feel like the small modules cargo culting is at least partially at fault.
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It means that often boundaries between modules are poorly chosen.
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definitely part of it. Any time people claim to have a silver bullet, be very very skeptical.
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