Earlier quoted context omitted.
> we're entering a more hardened era of software This is one force that operates. Another is that, in an effort to avoid depending on such a big attack surface, people are increasingly rolling their own code (with or without AI help) where they might previously have turned to an open source library. I think the effect will generally be an increase in vulnerabilities, since the hand-rolled code hasn't had the same amo…
Typically when hand-rolling code you implement only what you require for your use-case, while a library will be more general purpose. As a consequence of doing more, have more code and more bugs. Also, even seemingly trivial libraries can have bugs. The infamous leftpad library didn't handle certain edge doses properly. For supply chain security and bug count, I'll take a focused custom implementation of specific fea…
module.exports = leftpad;
function leftpad (str, len, ch) {
str = String(str);
var i = -1;
ch || (ch = ' ');
len = len - str.length;
while (++i Both old and new versions return a string longer than `len` if the padding char is multiple characters, e.g. leftpad('a', 3, '&&&&') will be longer than 3. That feels like it shouldn't happen.