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sus @programming.dev

5mo ago

average day in NPM land

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Another day of being extremely thankful I decided not to learn JavaScript
- I mean, the people relying on such packages didn't learn it either.
- Look at what you're missing!
  
  Edit: also, is-odd depends on is-number
  
  These are both made by the same person from this PR (who also made both the package the PR is on, and the is-number package that is being removed as a dep)
  
  Heaven forbid they make a package is-even-or-odd with both. Wait. Don't give them ideas. They'll just make it depend on both.
- This can happen in any project that uses dependencies, javascript or not
  
  Sure, but when was the last time you saw, say, a Python project using some third-party library instead of simply calling isnumeric() from the standard library?
  There's a reason for these jokes always being about Javascript.
- I only glossed over it… but this looks like it’s trying to check dynamic typing issues? It’s like a statically typed language with extra steps?
  
  I don't think typescript exists because JavaScript wasn't designed to be statically typed. I think Typescript exists because JavaScript wasn't really designed, period.
- How’s the view up there on your high horse?
  
  Must be pretty good, considering literally every time I check in on the JavaScript community it is somehow more on fire than it was last time. I guess I must have a front row seat to all their misfortune. Either that or they're just incompetent, but it couldn't be that, could it?

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