Programs are dead, and JavaScript has killed them
This is an article about ecosystems and package managers, not particularly about JavsScript, which is a scripting language around which one can chose to participate in ecosystems and use package managers. The distinction is not as subtle as one would think.<p>It&#x27;s the same with any program.. dependencies are future liabilities. You pay for fast development now with a future burden of upgrading and incompatibility.<p>That&#x27;s why I enjoy coming back to the software I&#x27;ve written with that mindset, it does not matter which language.. If I was in the supposedly wrong NIH mode when I wrote it, it still builds..