alt Hacker NewsThe problem is the volume of dependencies. Most modern JavaScript, Python, Rust, Go, etc. projects have many dozens of transitive dependencies.
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mbreese • today at 3:24 PM
Let’s not ignore that dependencies are far more common in JS than any of those other languages. My Go or Python projects generally only include a handful of external packages. Node projects on the other hand…
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Hum... You should check your JavaScript numbers again.
I have never seen a project that uses npm and has only dozens of dependencies. Normal numbers are in the 10s of thousands (including different versions of some deps).