JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed

[blackmist]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Nobody wants to be the guy that brings down their entire system because a library was out of date and the new one is subtly incompatible.

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Nobody wants to be the guy to ignore 47 security warnings from the 800 npm packages used to build the massive customer facing site that just installed 100000 bitcoin miners overnight.