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[–] activ8r 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

since many site owners are uncomfortable running mystery code on our servers

And yet Node.js exists and flourishes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What do you mean by that, isn't node open source as well?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The joke is a lot of devs import random node modules hahaha

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

I wonder if it's really true that this practice is particularly prevalent in JavaScript development or just a false impression caused by it being one of the most, if not the most, used programming language

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

is-even has too because it had to be a dependency 💀

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The Node package manager is used in some web applications and has a very trusting distribution model, but it's not particularly relevant to what I wrote (red herring fallacy), and GP's phrasing alone is enough to identify them as a heckler. Please don't feed the trolls.

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

True that, still, I was genuinely curious