| I'll disagree because the primary issues with gun control in the US are: [1] Guns are a core part of culture for much of America, very deeply so outside coastal cities. Most of the left wing in the US lives in coastal cities and either grew up there or immigrated very recently and does not leave, so this is an alien concept to them, but even in very blue cities like D.C. you would be shocked how many liberal democrats have armories. It is literally amendment #2! [2] They are already widely distributed and it would be a logistical impossibility to actually enforce gun control. This is directly analogous to NPM where: [1] The package registry working the way it does and people quickly installing packages without thinking much is deeply part of JS culture. It doesn't help that JS caters very heavily to as wide of a market as possible, of which the majority is going to be entry level/junior to associate engineers for whomst script kiddying or letting AI install whatever is essentially a way of life. As evidence, this type of thing is not really a problem with derivatives like Bun, especially in mature organizations where it's easy to enforce a minimum 72 hour wait time between publish and installation of a package. [2] Packages are already widely distributed and part of dependency stacks (e.g. the infamous leftpad) where it is a logistical impossibility to change how things work. I also view startups and companies like Vercel as essentially the NRA here, Next.js has taken over huge swathes of the ecosystem and highly encourages dependency-maxxing. Another direct analogy: proponents of gun control say they are unnecessary for self defense (esp. because law enforcement is good now), too heavy duty to begin with, and fundamentally dangerous. Similarly I would criticize dependency-maxxing as unnecessary for capability (esp. because AI is good now), too heavy duty to begin with, and fundamentally dangerous. |