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codeinabox@programming.dev to Opensource@programming.devEnglish · 1 day ago

The fate of “small” open source

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The fate of “small” open source

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codeinabox@programming.dev to Opensource@programming.devEnglish · 1 day ago
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By far the most popular npm package I’ve ever written is blob-util, which is ~10 years old and still gets 5+ million weekly downloads. It’s a small collection of utilities for working w…
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    in the post of “small” open source, guess what kind of open source i am talking about.

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      Any Linux system includes hundreds of small OSS projects.

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      How many production applications use Node, and therefore pull in a million dependencies like this?

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        slavery was legal

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          The 1800s called, they want their non sequitur back.

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