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order-matterstoday at 2:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

>We also live in a world where a package written by someone learning to code ended up critically underpinning the entire ecosystem and is downloaded 500 million times a month

whoa what? which one is that?


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etermtoday at 3:38 PM

As another commenter said, it's "is-even":

https://github.com/i-voted-for-trump/is-even

From that page:

> I created this in 2014, when I was learning how to program.

I've nothing against Jon Schlinkert, it's not his fault the way we build software is more than messed up, where our build systems are so brittle that, "Throw out the universe and rebuild it from scratch" became not just acceptable, but the main way to get build systems to work reliably.

hnuncommontoday at 2:54 PM

Check is-even and is-odd npm packages. https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even

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