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The tragedy of running an old Node project

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272 points abdisalan | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source
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everythingishax ◴[18 Nov 24 19:06 UTC] No.42175747[source]▶
This is literally every "hot new thing" since 2000.

It is systemic. Part of it is due to too many people creating systems on the fly with too little forethought, but also because there aren't enough "really smart people" working on long term solutions. Just hacks, done by hacks. What did you expect when the people writing the systems don't have long term experience?

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1. int_19h ◴[18 Nov 24 19:54 UTC] No.42176235[source]▶
The problem itself is old, but the extent to which it pervades different ecosystems varies. It's largely a cultural thing, and the problem with JS/Node ecosystem specifically is that most of the community (or, perhaps, rather most of the library/framework authors) accepts this kind of thing as normal.