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Node is such a toxic waste dump of a community.
There are indeed talented developers in it, but the vast majority and most vocal, are nothing but script-kiddies and teens trying to make a name for themselves.
I avoid node at all costs because you just can't trust:
- that a package won't expose your app data
- that a package will continue to be maintained for more than a year
- that a package won't just be ripped out of the community because the maintainer is fucking crazy -
@sariel not only that, remember what happened to faker.js and others?
I want a tool called "bogo-npm" which creates a VM and then installs random versions of npm and dependencies in a cycle until the build is successful. It'll probably be the biggest optimization that dogshit ecosystem has ever seen.
I'd just let it run over night and save myself the urges to strangle every single fucking developer who added dozens of dependencies to a stupid near-static website.
And the creator of the abomination called `npm uninstall` which for some fucking reason does the same as `npm install` and then obviously fails because that's the reason I wanted to remove that package in the first place.
We need more heroes like that leftpad dude.
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