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Random link: https://www.davidhaney.io/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how...

> it's supposed to be the libraries you're relying on

When an ecosystem has poor engineering practices and encourages small libraries with many dependencies you get a quadratic explosion of indirect dependencies.

You might not care about having 100 transitive dependencies until a poor soul has to maintain your code in 4 or 10 years from now.




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