Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by einpoklum on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:09AM (#25122812)

Can you link to a description of "the leftpad disaster"?

Also - it's not supposed to be "tons of random stuff", it's supposed to be the libraries you're relying on. Maybe I'm missing something in the point you're making?

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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by eeZah7Ux on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @11:19AM (#25125519)

Random link: https://www.davidhaney.io/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how...

> it's supposed to be the libraries you're relying on

When an ecosystem has poor engineering practices and encourages small libraries with many dependencies you get a quadratic explosion of indirect dependencies.

You might not care about having 100 transitive dependencies until a poor soul has to maintain your code in 4 or 10 years from now.

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