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And yet Node.js exists and flourishes.

What do you mean by that, isn’t node open source as well?

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The Node package manager is used in some web applications and has a very trusting distribution model, but it’s not particularly relevant to what I wrote (red herring fallacy), and GP’s phrasing alone is enough to identify them as a heckler. Please don’t feed the trolls.

True that, still, I was genuinely curious

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The joke is a lot of devs import random node modules hahaha

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I wonder if it’s really true that this practice is particularly prevalent in JavaScript development or just a false impression caused by it being one of the most, if not the most, used programming language

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