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Re:Coders Automating Their Own Job by bradknowles on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @06:41PM (#18126325)
I submit that having ten thousand node.js/npm dependencies is far worse than any DLL Hell that has ever been experienced to date.
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Re:Coders Automating Their Own Job by tokyodude on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:33AM (#18127653)
Hmmm, I just tried to install emacs on windows. With all dependencies is 210meg! Tried installing vnc on Ubuntu following commonly found instructions. Required installing 119 packages (each of which is likely built from several libraries). I also tried building smb from source. It required tons of dependencies to be installed. Is npm actually any worse than any other environment?
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Re:Coders Automating Their Own Job by Aeolun on Thursday October 04, 2018 @02:55AM (#18137766)
10000 > 100
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