[ristos]

The left-pad issue isn't related, it was more related to having a lot of dependencies from untrusted or unverified sources. There's nothing stopping you from following what the author is calling a "microprogramming" paradigm and pulling in a single dependency that has a lot of smaller programs in it from a single trusted source, such as core-utils, or a trusted dependency that aggregates a curated and audited set of tools

I don't think this is the case with your comments and a lot of other comments, I think there's genuine confusion and misunderstanding, but I definitely also feel like at this point a decent number of people are intentionally trolling and acting as thought they don't understand what's being said when people make the case for lots of small composable programs, and why that might be provide additional benefits over just having a bunch of small composable pure functions.