The fate of "small" open source

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295 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

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Aperocky ◴[16 Nov 25 20:38 UTC] No.45948201[source]▶

> the era of small, low-value libraries like blob-util is over.

Thankfully (not against blob-util specifically because I've never intentionally used it), I wouldn't completely blame llms either since languages like Go never had this dependency hell.

npm is a security nightmare not just because of npm the package manager, because the culture of the language rewards behavior such as "left-pad".

Instead of writing endless utilities for other project to re-use, write actual working things instead - that's where the value/fun is.

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ncruces ◴[16 Nov 25 20:52 UTC] No.45948291[source]▶

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But as Go puts it:

“A little copying is better than a little dependency.”

https://go-proverbs.github.io/

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1. skydhash ◴[16 Nov 25 21:20 UTC] No.45948486[source]▶

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Yep something like blob util could be a blog post or a gist (or several stack overflow answers). And a lot of NPM library falls under that. They always have the anemic standard library of JavaScript forgetting that the C library is even smaller.

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