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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow you're right, he's the author of the infamous "is-odd" and "is-even" packages. What an odd person.

Someone in the OP PR mentioned the amount of energy used to download these tiny packages and its actually something crazy to think about

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It makes you wonder why anyone uses them though, since so many of them do things that are trivial in modern JavaScript.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

And anyone who has been around for a while should remember when left-pad broke node.js. Including unnecessary dependencies, instead of writing trivial code is just bad practice.