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		nerdbert on Aug 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Micro-libraries should never be used > why does the JS ecosystem seem to have "more fear" than for example the Python ecosystem? Perhaps it's because so many JS developers - quite rightfully - suffer from impostor syndrome? It's the language with the largest proportion of people who didn't set out to be programmers but somehow got mission-crept into becoming one.

crabmusket on Aug 18, 2024 [–]

My instinct would have been that this applies to Python! I'm only working from an anecdotal dataset of 1, a friend who works in insurance and is becoming necessarily more and more familiar with Python for data processing.

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