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Roblox Game Devs Duped by Malicious npm Packages (www.cyber-oracle.com)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At some point, npm supply chain attacks are going to stop being news and start being "Tuesday."

... JS on the backend was a mistake.

[–] noli 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

JS was a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It wouldn't have been if it kept to the original purpose of some simple tasks and such, but we can't have nice things.

[–] JackbyDev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

JS on the backend was a mistake.

Typo squatting is not unique to JS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

True, but it's uniquely bad in the JS world. Developers tend to rely on libraries in almost cartoonish excess.

  • The language is shit in general, leading to an endless parade of frameworks and packages designed to paper over the sore spots.
  • The lack of a well-rounded One True Standard Library™ means lots of trivial functionality needs to come from somewhere.
  • Micro-dependencies are commonplace, leading to bloated dependency trees. I'd guess this is caused by a combination of both culture and the fact that you often want your JS artifacts to be as lean as possible.