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by craftkiller 276 days ago
> You can pretend like this is unique to JS ecosystem, but xz was compromised for 3 years.

Okay, but you're not suggesting that a compression algorithm is the same scale as "is-arrayish". I don't think everyone should need to reimplement LZMA but installing a library to determine if a value is an array is bordering on satire.
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paulddraper 276 days ago
FWIW, is-arrayish is primarily an internal dependency. The author (Qix) depends on it for the packages that actually get used, liked color and error-ex.

But it's all one author.

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craftkiller 275 days ago
It might be an internal dependency for this author, but package.json is only for direct dependencies, right? github shows is-arrayish is a direct dependency of thousands of repos: https://github.com/search?q=%22is-arrayish%22+path%253Apacka...
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paulddraper 274 days ago
Yes. And npm shows 1500 direct dependent packages. [1]

Vast majority are nothing. No stars, no downloads.

(IDK why. What I do know is that if you crack open the node_modules for any real project, is-arrayish will be there only because of one of the Qix packages.)

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-arrayish?activeTab=dependen...

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tkiolp4 276 days ago
They should ban Qix.
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