Left-pad as a service

> How stupid of people to trust their package manager to be consistent and correct and return packages they were expecting.

Obviously people shouldn't have trusted npm - that's the reason things broke in the first place!

> How does everyone taking the piss intend to protect themselves from this in their OS package manager, or PPM or composer or pip?

The usual method is to bundle dependencies rather than pull them down from the web at deploy-time. That or use a package manager with rather stronger guarantees on availability of packages.

> It's not javascript devs fault that the standard library is so piss poor you need these short code snippets

This is very true.

> the level of smugness here is absolutely ridiculous.

Also true, but funny nonetheless.

I don't understand why this community has to have a weekly cycle of bashing different programming communities. Every week there's a new drama thread bashing Java devs, Go devs, Javascript devs etc. The thing that I come to this community for every week is to read about new developments in our industry, if you don't come here for that then what are you coming here for?

And wasn't it just a few months ago people were praising the innovation of Urbit for having a 'global functional namespace'? But because it's popular to hate on javascript devs for applying -- sorry, I forgot this was javascript bashing week -- for reinventing concepts from other areas in computer science and software engineering the HN community has to start hating on another programming community's work.

That said this is a pretty funny satirical page, apologies to the author for venting at the HN community.

As a very sarcastic person, I highly approve of this. This absolutely reflects my opinion of all this mess.

Thank you for making this site so that I don't have to write an opinion piece like everybody else seems to have to. Instead, if asked about the issue, I can just point them at this site.

Yes. This isn't constructive, but this mess had so many layers that I really can't point to a single thing and offer a simple fix as a solution.

As such I'm totally up for just having a laugh, especially when it really isn't being nasty against specific people but just laughing about the whole situation.

Thank you to whoever made this

>How does everyone taking the piss intend to protect themselves from this in their OS package manager, or PPM or composer or pip?

By signing packages and not allowing literally anybody to re-upload a brand new package that does something completely different under the name of an existing, widely-used package. There's not much excuse for that in any respectable package manager.