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Julian Gonggrijp

juliangonggrijp@ieji.de

<p>Inventor type of person, driven to work for the common good.<br />Maintainer of Underscore.js, Backbone.js, Wontache and the Mustache spec.<br />Proud owner of a Permaculture Design Certificate.</p>

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    Is anyone still using npm v1 or v2 (most recent release 9 years ago)? Or do you know where I might find someone who does that? I have the following question: Versions 1 and 2 of npm used to automatically install peerDependencies if they were not directly depended upon. From versions 3 to 6, a warning was given instead. From version 7 onwards, they went back to installing peerDependencies automatically, but this could be opted out of with peerDependenciesMeta. Backbone has had an optional peer-...

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    @vie@hachyderm.io I think part of the logic is that a lot of developers have low self-confidence. If you believe that you&#39;re not as good as your peers, it seems attractive to defer part of the work to a machine that presents all its answers with certainty. It lessens your perceived burden and you can lean on its apparent confidence. It&#39;s actually bluffing away, an unreliable source compared to intentionally written documentation and a much worse programmer than the nonconfident human, bu...