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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem by andai on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:25PM (#50381783)
Every time I try to get a npm based project running (or one of my forks of one), half the packages don't exist anymore or I need to spend hours fixing breaking changes.

It's usually more straightforward to just rebuild it from scratch — not to mention infinitely more satisfying — and that was true before AI!

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Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem by gavinray on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:28PM (#50381831)
Language ecosystems tend to exist on a continuum. I love TypeScript but dread the dependency management because it's so often bit-rotted.

On the other hand, I routinely build Java/JVM projects with dependencies that haven't been updated in a decade that compile without issues.

Somewhere in the middle are most languages, I think.

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