The problem is the volume of dependencies. Most modern JavaScript, Python, Rust, Go, etc. projects have many dozens of transitive dependencies.

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marcosdumay 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Hum... You should check your JavaScript numbers again.

I have never seen a project that uses npm and has only dozens of dependencies. Normal numbers are in the 10s of thousands (including different versions of some deps).

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mbreese 43 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Let’s not ignore that dependencies are far more common in JS than any of those other languages. My Go or Python projects generally only include a handful of external packages. Node projects on the other hand…

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		Really? My requirements.txt does tend to be shorter than package.json, but not by a massive amount.