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> The JS ecosystem encourages using a million tiny unmaintained packages and that is bad

continuing on this, I wonder if this is a cultural thing or if there are actual technical choices made in NPM that play a role. Could NPM change something in their package management to change this? Should they?

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it's language-cultural. to "publish a package" in Go simply means having a public git repository. and yet, nobody who writes Go imports packages. it's well-understood that if you can't write something like leftpad (or many other JS packages) yourself in your own codebase in a few lines, you're an absolute nonce. Javascript developers on the other hand tend to skew towards the juniors in our broader ecosystem, and they seek easy and quick prestige, which leads to "star farming"/"download farming"

So no one uses all those Go libraries on GitHub? Hmmm except pedophiles? What is wrong with you?

... _what_? i don't think you parsed my comment correctly at all

to address the part of your comment that doesn't make my head spin: only very occasionally do i see senior Go developers import 3rd party libraries. i'm just speaking from my experience

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