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0 pointsmmbleh5y ago0 comments

> It's the ecosystem that every contender would love to be.

Trying to clarify - do you mean other JS ecosystems? Outside of JS, NPM is usually used as what not to do, not as an aspiration.

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doteka5y ago

Could you share some examples of ecosystems that are 1) vibrant and active 2) have working, open source, ergonomic tooling of a comparable caliber to VSCode, typescript and friends 3) can target almost any platform, including but not limited to server, mobile, desktop and web?

I’m trying hard to think of any, Java and Python come closest but both fall short.

HelloNurse5y ago

There are vibrant and active communities around good projects, but npm is the greatest known repository of abandoned, obsolete, not very good and potentially malicious libraries. The bad scales up along with the good; great tools on npm don't make the Leftpad fiasco more forgivable or technical shortcomings less bad.

doteka5y ago

Fair enough, but I have no idea how that can be avoided if we take Sturgeon’s Law as a given: 90% of everything is garbage.

I’d argue an essential quality in a modern software engineer is ‘good taste in dependencies’, if you will. Adding a dependency for padding a string with whitespace would have gotten you a friendly but stern lecture from a senior dev, in every good team I’ve been a part of so far.

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doteka5y ago

I’m trying hard to think of any, Java and Python come closest but both fall short.

HelloNurse5y ago

doteka5y ago

Fair enough, but I have no idea how that can be avoided if we take Sturgeon’s Law as a given: 90% of everything is garbage.

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