I never saw anyone ever, even in the deepest pits of the internet, complaining about software registries per se. Even ultra-crackpots rarely get to this level. The regular complaints are always about very specific points around the culture of individual package registries. Even the most ardent NPM critic will be the first to admit that the general idea is per se great, and it is in practice it is useful, but the execution is lacking in some aspects, often exclusively cultural. Nobody is trying to throw away the baby with the bathwater.
Package registries are definitely useful and important. They don’t need someone misrepresenting valid criticism in order to be useful.
If anything it is the lack of empathy and the blindness to those tradeoffs that shows a lack of understanding of engineering itself, not only its history.
Beware this mindset. While it is completely reasonable, know that probably hundreds of new software developers enter the workforce every day, they hear us bitching about package registries like npm, and lack the experience to distinguish baby from said bathwater.
Go ahead. I'm not telling you not to complain, just reminding you that when you do complain, is you don't provide context, you deny others that knowledge
> Even the most ardent NPM critic will be the first to admit that the general idea is per se great, and it is in practice it is useful,
It's to be blackpilled about humanity. They're a natural, useful, obvious thing to do, like solving world hunger. And then everyone gets obese, and, somehow, it feels like we're worse off. It's tragic. Because of the leftpad incident, I now read Nick Land.
> but the execution is lacking in some aspects, often exclusively cultural.
Is that a thing I can do? Can I just pull the "cultural" emergency lever to justify anything?
It's fine if everyone owns 3 firearms; the reason shootings are up is a cultural issue!
> Nobody is trying to throw away the baby with the bathwater.
Reject modernity; embrace tradition. c:<
Can you think of any way to prevent the slouch toward mediocrity and supply injection attacks that come along for the "software registry" ride? I can't. It's like trying to reverse a thermodynamic reaction. It's trying to uninvent gunpowder. It's trying to have networking with 100% uptime. It's trying to have a free lunch.
I never saw anyone ever, even in the deepest pits of the internet, complaining about software registries per se. Even ultra-crackpots rarely get to this level. The regular complaints are always about very specific points around the culture of individual package registries. Even the most ardent NPM critic will be the first to admit that the general idea is per se great, and it is in practice it is useful, but the execution is lacking in some aspects, often exclusively cultural. Nobody is trying to throw away the baby with the bathwater.
Package registries are definitely useful and important. They don’t need someone misrepresenting valid criticism in order to be useful.
If anything it is the lack of empathy and the blindness to those tradeoffs that shows a lack of understanding of engineering itself, not only its history.