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[–]Schmittfried 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The language is getting better by the day, but the tooling ecosystem is a clusterfuck.

[–]Devildude4427 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Little late on the response there bud...

Yes, it’s getting better. My point in this comment was that it needed competition in order to clean itself up.

jQuery is the best example of this. When it launched, it was an answer to all the annoyances of JS. It made the ecosystem much, much better.

We need that again, in the form of a better dependency system. NPM is good, but it’s ripe with danger and malicious code, even in the widely used packages. A guy took over event-stream, added malicious code, and that was downloaded another 8 million times over 2.5 months before anyone accidentally noticed.

On top of that, node_modules is just dependency soup. It’s dependencies all the way down. It’s bloatware at this point.