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by kulahan 1237 days ago
>But a package manager is a hundred-ton hammer when all you need is

Unfortunately, this is the state of much of software development today. It's why most webpages are enormous. It's why massive increases to speed, processing power, and communication bandwidth have resulted in no real net increase to web-browsing speed for the last 10 years.
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JohnBooty 1237 days ago 

    It's why massive increases to speed, processing power, 
    and communication bandwidth have resulted in no real 
    net increase to web-browsing speed for the last 10 years.
nor to developer productivity, either. I feel that has massively decreased in the last decade.

There are clearly cases where complex build/CI/CD pipelines make sense, but people now believe they need big enterprisey FAANG-scale solutions even when they don't.

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