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A tale of well-designed systems (boehs.org)
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Not entirely the usual fare, but i figured some here would appreciate it

I often rag on the js/node/npm ecosystem for being utter garbage, and this post is a quite a full demonstration of many of the shortcomings and outright total design failures present in that space

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I kept stopping while reading to rant about how each turn of the story reinforced my notion that the npm ecosystem will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Can't uninstall if you're anyone's dependency? That's a social problem; if an underlying package goes away or breaks, then yes, the downstream packages need to update (and JS needs a frickin stdlib so people stop importing 12-line string formatters).

Can't uninstall if you're someone's wildcard dependency? That's a bug.

Can't uninstall if you depend on self? Massive bug.

The kik naming thing? I find package namespacing irritating but it solves that problem.