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The fate of "small" open source

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295 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 16 Nov 25 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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1. kermatt ◴[16 Nov 25 21:29 UTC] No.45948576[source]▶
> since languages like Go never had this dependency hell

What is the feature of Go that this is referring to?

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2. ncruces ◴[16 Nov 25 22:34 UTC] No.45949092[source]▶
It's a cultural thing.

And libraries try harder not to have absurd dependencies, than finished products (correctly, IMO).