Seems to me the only reason for these kind of dependencies to exist in the first place is that people really, really, really, REALLY can't code.

[–] Bourff@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well javascript is the default language of the web, so no surprise it attracts a lot of newbies.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah but if noobs use it as a dependency, who made the package?

And what projects are noobs working on that trigger 440GB of weekly traffic?

I fear most noobs remain noobs.

[–] Bourff@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Don't ask me, all these one-line packages are ridiculous, cause greater issues than whatever they solve, and are (part of) the reason why js and it's ecosystem are not considered seriously by other developers.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 months ago

this is exactly the kind of thing the senior engineers above me at my last job would use.. Their code made me cry