Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> writes: > I still find it hard to believe that *so* much code is required to > minify JS. The excuse that JS is "moving fast" is nonsense. The reality > would appear to be that nobody actually *cares* about the mess, they > just use it.
This is almost certainly correct. > Usable software needs usable tools. The problem is that this *is* usable for nearly all the people who currently use it, who just run one command to install it and have all those dependencies pulled from a remote repo for them. Because the dependency installation process is so easy, they think no more about adding new dependencies than we think about installing some application with apt that happens to require a bunch of shared libraries. In other words, the people developing and using this tool don't see this as a problem, and therefore don't care about fixing it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
