[HideousKojima]

Sure, just like most men aren't violent criminals but men are still statistically more likely to be violent criminals. The point is that JS devs seem (perhaps a proper statistical study will show otherwise) more likely per capita to shit up their ecosystem. There are several reasons contributing to this (the limited JS standard lib being a big one) but a major part of it really seems to be that JS devs are a different breed.

I've never seen controversies like this in the .NET/Nuget ecosystem, the only controversies I've ever seen there are over libraries changing licenses to make the authors more money, and controversies over Microsoft exercising too much control over the ecosystem.

[Tade0]

> but a major part of it really seems to be that JS devs are a different breed.

Can you really make such generalizations considering there are millions of JS devs, some of them not working exclusively in this language?

[throwaway7033]

Here are some package counts(http://www.modulecounts.com/) for different platforms:

* npm - (1,916,619)

* Maven - (465,713)

* NuGet - (299,957)

npm has about 2.5 times the number of packages as Maven and NuGet combined; it's not surprising that it has more drama than other ecosystems.

[pbourke]

> I've never seen controversies like this in the .NET/Nuget ecosystem

Some .NET ecosystem projects have put political messages on their documentation over the past couple of years.

[gs17]

I think they meant "controversies" more in the "adding malware to a common dependency" sense.

[devmunchies]

> men are still statistically more likely to be violent criminals

I think your meant criminals are more likely to be men.

[HideousKojima]

No, I meant exactly what I said, more men are violent criminals per capita than women. What you said is also true, but it's not what I meant.

[NhanH]

Moreover, unless we are talking about a very unusual subset of the population, the ratio of men:women is always almost 1:1, which renders the two statement functionally equivalent

[devmunchies]

Oh you meant in relation to women. I misinterpreted that you were saying if you pick 10 men, then over 5 of them are violent criminals.

[lobocinza]

They're equivalent, in this case.

[gruez]

They're both talking about the same phenomena and are technically correct, but the framing is different. Specifically, the latter wording tries to defuse blame on males.