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> No matter if people like small modules or not, it's not at all related to the topic discussed.

It is very relevant to the topic discussed.

Just for fun :

https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/purescript

> 150 dependencies.

Including a package named "one-time", bundled several times in two different versions. To do something highly relevant and technical like "Call a function once".

I have no doubt that it is an Highly complex code that requires indeed two packages..... Irony

Little question: What would have been the probability of purescript getting malicious if its dependency tree would be something reasonnable... Let's say 20 packages instead of the current ~200 ?



Thank you for linking to that dependency grapher.

The crab-grass like dependencies of many/most NPM packages is scary enough, and then they (or you?), I guess because of lazy loading, to improve responsiveness, update it as you watch.. It's like a scene out of an alien monster movie, where the creature keeps growing more limbs.




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