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codeinabox@programming.dev to Opensource@programming.devEnglish · 1 month ago

The fate of “small” open source

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codeinabox@programming.dev to Opensource@programming.devEnglish · 1 month ago
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By far the most popular npm package I’ve ever written is blob-util, which is ~10 years old and still gets 5+ million weekly downloads. It’s a small collection of utilities for working w…
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    How many production applications use Node, and therefore pull in a million dependencies like this?

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      slavery was legal

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        The 1800s called, they want their non sequitur back.

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