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...
- Sep 16: https://socket.dev/blog/ongoing-supply-chain-attack-targets-...
StepSecurity – https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/ctrl-tinycolor-and-40-npm-p...
Aikido - https://www.aikido.dev/blog/s1ngularity-nx-attackers-strike-...
Ox - https://www.ox.security/blog/npm-2-0-hack-40-npm-packages-hi...
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.
systems? rust - but it is still far from perfect, too much focus on saving few keystrokes here and there.
general purpose corporate development? c# - despite current direction post .net 5 of stapling together legacy parts of .net framework to .net core. it does most things good enough.
scripting, and just scripting? python.
web? there's only one, bad, option and that's js/ts.
most hated ones are in order: js, go, c++, python.
go is extremely infuriating, there was a submission on HN that perfectly encapsulated my feelings about it, after writing it for a while: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-...