Thread 106186054

why does this exist
why does it get 100M downloads a week
why do over 2k things depend on it

>>106186054 (OP)
Webshitters are cooked. Total webshitter death.

>>106186054 (OP)
>why?
have you tried reading the very first sentence of the description? i know that's asking a lot, op, but i believe in you.

>>106186054 (OP)
prob people who can barely use js need to know if something is an array and this shit shows up first when they search "javascript is array"

>>106186054 (OP)
Indians
I simply can't imagine east Asian, white or Slavic person using this thing.

>>106186112
It is 7 lines of code.

>>106186054 (OP)
>why does this exist
>>106186112
>have you tried reading the very first sentence of the description
lol owned hard by a compat shim

>>106186054 (OP)
there must be a 1000 youtube tutorials mentioning it

>>106186054 (OP)
If a library is less than 1k lines I rewrite it myself
Feels virtually itchy to have so many 7 lines libraries in a project

>>106186054 (OP)
some bigger library has it as it's dependancy
now why does the bigger library have this dependency? possibly somehow injected by the author of this package somehow as a PR somewhere, maybe on an alternate account or something

>>106186054 (OP)
it's sleeper malware
when you have hundreds of small dependencies like this one, one one is checking then and you can just slip something unwated there

>>106187243
Unemployed mindset

>>106187243
based, that's what I've always done as a C and C++ dev and that's what my defense company is forcing me to do anyways.
most of the time we use a very tiny subset of features from a dependency, it's much better to just extract the 1% needed or to rewrite something similar than to use the lib, only exception is openssl.
everyone is a potential terrorist, I don't want to depend on their code, I'll c/p the code I need directly into my project or as a lite version in a third-party folder right next to the makefile or CMakeFiles.txt (anything else is brain damage)
>>106188986
engineer mindset*
ftfy
using a dependency is a last resort effort, it's 99% of the time better to just c/p or rewrite what you need as it's easier to maintain, tailor-made for your use case, easier to build, no deps to manage, easier to enhance.
using a dependency should be justify to your hierarchy and you should be liable if anything wrong happen (jail time, etc)

>>106187243

This is the way to go. If it can fit in a single file, you write it yourself. Idk where it was lost in the culture but dependencies are not a good thing, they are to be avoided not sought out.

>>106186054 (OP)
Send an email to your professor instead of shitting up the board
Or ask a fucking llm

>>106189058
You’re a tryhard cringelord who doesn’t value his time. Unemployed as fuck write less next time

>>106189058
No, that anon is right, unemployed mindset.

>>106189134
>>106189104

It actually reeks of toy app small timer that you've never experienced the hell of a huge package ridden npm hell situation

>>106189104
>You’re a tryhard cringelord who doesn’t value his time
>t.webshitter
you don't know the first thing about software engineering, writing the code is never the hard task, it takes very little effort to extract/rewrite exactly what is necessary adn you can't prove me wrong.
>Unemployed as fuck write less next time
cope harder webshitter, you're the reason we can't have nice things anymore, I can't fucking wait for AI to put you where you belong as a garbage man.
>>106189134
no he is not. mutt brain damage at best, it's not like this in the first world and time spent on a feature (like integrating a dep) isn't wasted, 99% swe are salaried positions anyways.
programming isn't as time-consuming as you think, maybe webshitting is, I would not know as I don't mix myself with subhumans.

>>106189159
God damn dude. It’s 8am don’t you have work? Oh wait…

>>106189183
it's lunch time in the first world my guy

>>106189187
Well you’re clearly not very busy. That’s for sure

>>106189204
yep, I'm working from home on fridays and my break ends in 2 minutes at 14h30

Someone must have put this shit in a popular package as a joke, and now everyone who installs that downloads this meme.

>>106189214
Oh I’m sure :-)

>>106189222
have a nice day, my guy

I don't work with javascript (I have standards), but what is the difference from this:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/isArray

Why would you install something that does exactly the same thing as a native option?

>>106189236
ataraxia on your family