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What are some examples of xkcd 2347?
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Left pad https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/rage-quit-coder-unpublished-17-lines-of-javascript-and-broke-the-internet/
Had GPT summarize what happened.
This is the one I came to post about. The fact there's a library for this is so stupid to me.
I feel like it demonstrates how npm and modules have probably to some degree gotten out of hand.
This famously broke builds at Facebook.
That's always the one I'm thinking of when anyone mentions the xkcd.
npm is one crazy infrastructure.
From memory the NPM blokes had to have a think about how they handle important packages because of that. Didn't they revert the changes to left pad to ensure everything else didn't break?
Fascinating to see the house of cards some of these solutions / libraries are built off
Yes. They added it back. The policy now is that you can't remove packages that are depended on (or something to that extent, I don't know the specifics).
Yeah I'm pretty sure Github themselves restored the package if I recall correctly