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_xkjr on July 24, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance

I agree. It's especially pungent in JavaScript, in which the average 'JavaScript developer' is playing some perverse game of library pokemon.

graphitezepp on July 24, 2017 | [–]

Definitely stealing Javascript Pokemon. Seriously why are people still adopting more libraries to perpetuate this insanity.

_xkjr on July 24, 2017 | [–]

Further thought: this is a similar problem to creating too many standards. https://xkcd.com/927/

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