Reply to post: Waiting for the woodpecker

NBD: A popular HTTP-fetching npm code library used by 48,000 other modules retires, no more updates coming

DCFusor
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Waiting for the woodpecker

"The JavaScript ecosystem is simply too large, and the dependency graphs too interdependent, for anyone to get an accurate picture of how much of the remaining dependence on request anyone should actually be concerned about."

This brought to mind the old saying - "if architects built buildings the way programmers build code, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy society" - or something like that.

While I could rag on Javascript specifically, there's no need as it's far from unique in this regard. We're cruising for a fall...

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