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Re:Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer by dmitriid on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:02AM (#20551853)
Funnily enough, in my opinion, the JS ecosystem fully embraced the Unix way: have small programs/libs that do only one thing and do it (somewhat) well.
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Re:Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer by lenkite on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:45AM (#20552036)
I fear your analogy does not go far enough if you are comparing the JS ecosystem to the UNIX philosophy.

Javascript would offer a library for every single option, variant and logical operator for a UNIX command. Combinatorial explosion will devour the web. It already destroys dev laptops anyways when downloading something via NPM.

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Re:Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer by inimino on Monday July 29, 2019 @05:59AM (#20552986)
No, they do not on the whole do anything well.
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