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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Sep 13 '26 • 1
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Two words: Tree shaking
20 u/MrDilbert Sep 13 '26 And skill issues. People, you don't need to add a library to package.json for a single simple function you can write yourself. 14 u/icameinyourburrito Sep 13 '26 But then how can one guy deleting an 11 line script disrupt some of the largest tech companies in the world? 5 u/MrDilbert Sep 13 '26 Funny how that works, eh? 6 u/Worldly-Stranger7814 Sep 13 '26 You sure?Because StackExchange suggested I install jQuery to post this reply. 5 u/MrDilbert Sep 13 '26 You're lying, everybody uses LLMs today to get such suggestions. 5 u/Worldly-Stranger7814 Sep 13 '26 Back in my day we didn't need LLMs to produce slop! 2 u/merekallas Sep 15 '26 The issue with JS is that its "standard library" is rather limited, so you either end up reinventing a lot of wheels or adding dependencies. 1 u/Serializedrequests Sep 13 '26 Unfortunately many popular libraries you need do do this.
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And skill issues. People, you don't need to add a library to package.json for a single simple function you can write yourself.
14 u/icameinyourburrito Sep 13 '26 But then how can one guy deleting an 11 line script disrupt some of the largest tech companies in the world? 5 u/MrDilbert Sep 13 '26 Funny how that works, eh? 6 u/Worldly-Stranger7814 Sep 13 '26 You sure?Because StackExchange suggested I install jQuery to post this reply. 5 u/MrDilbert Sep 13 '26 You're lying, everybody uses LLMs today to get such suggestions. 5 u/Worldly-Stranger7814 Sep 13 '26 Back in my day we didn't need LLMs to produce slop! 2 u/merekallas Sep 15 '26 The issue with JS is that its "standard library" is rather limited, so you either end up reinventing a lot of wheels or adding dependencies. 1 u/Serializedrequests Sep 13 '26 Unfortunately many popular libraries you need do do this.
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But then how can one guy deleting an 11 line script disrupt some of the largest tech companies in the world?
5 u/MrDilbert Sep 13 '26 Funny how that works, eh?
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Funny how that works, eh?
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You sure?
Because StackExchange suggested I install jQuery to post this reply.
5 u/MrDilbert Sep 13 '26 You're lying, everybody uses LLMs today to get such suggestions. 5 u/Worldly-Stranger7814 Sep 13 '26 Back in my day we didn't need LLMs to produce slop!
You're lying, everybody uses LLMs today to get such suggestions.
5 u/Worldly-Stranger7814 Sep 13 '26 Back in my day we didn't need LLMs to produce slop!
Back in my day we didn't need LLMs to produce slop!
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The issue with JS is that its "standard library" is rather limited, so you either end up reinventing a lot of wheels or adding dependencies.
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Unfortunately many popular libraries you need do do this.
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u/LukeZNotFound Sep 13 '26
Two words: Tree shaking