• NotNotMike@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    Wow you’re right, he’s the author of the infamous “is-odd” and “is-even” packages. What an odd person.

    Someone in the OP PR mentioned the amount of energy used to download these tiny packages and its actually something crazy to think about

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      3 months ago

      It makes you wonder why anyone uses them though, since so many of them do things that are trivial in modern JavaScript.

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        3 months ago

        And anyone who has been around for a while should remember when left-pad broke node.js. Including unnecessary dependencies, instead of writing trivial code is just bad practice.