I can't help but feel like I'm missing context here. The project (https://github.com/harthur/replace) seems like a vaguely reasonable "grep with a simpler interface and a regex syntax I'm already familiar with" kind of utility. It's far from a central example of the dependency bloat that people usually mock about Node.js--it uses the standard library for all the actual filesystem and regex work, and just has a couple dependencies for normal things like command-line parsing and ANSI color codes.
Has the project been significantly rewritten and cleaned up following these posts? Was there some absurd hype cycle for this thing that didn't deliver? Did the Internet get mad at this person for some unrelated reason? What happened here?
Has the project been significantly rewritten and cleaned up following these posts? Was there some absurd hype cycle for this thing that didn't deliver? Did the Internet get mad at this person for some unrelated reason? What happened here?