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Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is one of the more important reasons to minimize dependencies and be very picky about the ones we adopt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Absolutely this. It almost seems like a controversial opinion sometimes, but microdependencies is a code smell imo. This could largely be improved by providing a more extended standard lib, at the cost of innovation and velocity maybe. I found this interesting: https://blessed.rs/crates

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

IDK about you but the company I work for can't live without npm packages doing almost everything. For example: the is-even package.