Why is JS, in particular, so deeply afflicted with these issues? Why hasn’t there been an effort to create a more robust standard library? Or at least first party libraries maintained by the JavaScript team? That way folks can pull in trusted deps instead of all the hodgepodge.
Go did a lot wrong. It was just awful before they added Go modules. But it’s puzzling to me to understand why as a community and ecosystem its 3rd party dependencies seem so much less bloated. Part of it I think is because the standard library is pretty expansive. Part of it is because of things like golang.org/x. But there’s also a lot of corporate maintainers - and I feel like part of that is because packages are namespaces to the repository - which itself is namespaced to ownership. Technically that isn’t even a requirement - but the community adopted it pretty evenly - and it makes me wonder why others haven’t.
Go did a lot wrong. It was just awful before they added Go modules. But it’s puzzling to me to understand why as a community and ecosystem its 3rd party dependencies seem so much less bloated. Part of it I think is because the standard library is pretty expansive. Part of it is because of things like golang.org/x. But there’s also a lot of corporate maintainers - and I feel like part of that is because packages are namespaces to the repository - which itself is namespaced to ownership. Technically that isn’t even a requirement - but the community adopted it pretty evenly - and it makes me wonder why others haven’t.