I knew npm was a train wreck when I first used it years ago and it pulled in literally hundreds of dependencies for a simple app. I avoid anything that uses it like the plague.
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Socket:
- Sep 15 (First post on breach): https://socket.dev/blog/tinycolor-supply-chain-attack-affect...
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Safety - https://www.getsafety.com/blog-posts/shai-hulud-npm-attack
Phoenix - https://phoenix.security/npm-tinycolor-compromise/
Semgrep - https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/security-advisory-npm-packages...
I try to avoid JS, as it is a horrible language, by design. That does include TS, but it at least is useable, but barely - because it still tied to JS itself.
Still, even I who'd call myself a JavaScript developer also try to avoid desktop applications made with just JS :)
It is full of gotchas that serves 0 purpose nowadays.
Also remember that it is basically a Lisp wearing Java skin on top, originally designed in less than 2 weeks.
Typescript is one of few things that puts safety barrier and sane static error checking that makes JS bearable to use - but it still has to fall down to how JS works in the end so it suffers from same core architectural problems.
What some people see as a fault, others see as a feature :) For me, that's there to prevent entire websites from breaking because some small widget in the bottom right corner breaks, for example. Rather than stopping the entire runtime, it just surfaces that error in the developer tools, but lets the rest to continue working.
Then of course entire web apps crash because one tiny error somewhere (remember seeing a blank page with just some short error text in black in the middle? Those), but that doesn't mean that's the best way of doing things.
> Also remember that it is basically a Lisp wearing Java skin on top
I guess that's why I like it better than TS, that tries to move it away from that. I mainly do Clojure development day-to-day, and static types hardly ever gives me more "safety" than other approaches do. But again, what I do isn't more "correct" than what anyone else does, it's largely based on "It's better for me to program this way".
the issue is that it prevents that, but also allows you to send complete corrupt data forward, that can create horrible cascade of errors down the pipeline - because other components made assumption about correctness of data passed to them.
Such display errors should be caught early in development, should be tested, and should never reach prod, instead of being swept under the rug - for anything else other than prototype.
but i agree - going fully functional with dynamic types beats average JS experience any day. It is just piling up more mud upon giant mudball,