Drew DeVault 2/6/2020

Dependencies and maintainers

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The article reflects on a FOSDEM talk about sustainability in open source, using examples like left-pad and event-stream. It critiques the modern practice of projects having thousands of dependencies, arguing this creates systemic risk and disconnects developers from the maintainers and code they rely on, contrasting it with a more engaged, minimalist approach.

Dependencies and maintainers

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