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some thoughts about the bloat introduced by edge-case first libraries

43081j.comThe bloat of edge-case first librariesHow building edge-case first led to bloated, overly-granular libraries and what we can do about it

Matthew Gibbons

@accuser.dev

Great post. Do packages always start out so, or do you think this is a natural evolution of open source? Is it easier to submit a PR to address your edge case than fix your code locally? There’s probably some psychology at play here that we’d do well to understand.

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