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Re:Left-Pad (2024) by nkrisc on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @07:08AM (#44246316)
What’s anti-social is unilaterally making your code dependent on someone’s package and then getting mad at them when they choose to remove it.

This whole problem was trivially avoidable, and people get mad at him because they were too lazy to avoid it.

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Re:Left-Pad (2024) by bartread on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @09:23AM (#44247356)
They weren't too lazy to avoid it. Depending on other peoples' packages was actively encouraged within the JS community during that period, and the perceived benefits of doing so were loudly trumpeted.
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Re:Left-Pad (2024) by nkrisc on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:50AM (#44248259)
And if you did without due diligence of the downsides, you have only yourself to blame.

Lots of people made a big mistake, they found out the hard way. Lesson learned.

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