JavaScript Community Faces Reckoning After Major Supply-Chain Attack
By
warrenm
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Summary
The article discusses the aftermath of the largest supply-chain attack in JavaScript history, suggesting this could be a pivotal moment for the community to address fundamental flaws in dependency management. However, the author expresses skepticism that meaningful change will actually occur, despite years of warnings about the reckless and dangerous nature of current approaches.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledIn the wake of the largest supply-chain attack in history, the JavaScript community could have a moment of reckoning and decide: never again.
people have been sounding the alarm for years that this approach to dependency management is reckless and dangerous and broken by design.
Maybe this is the moment when the JavaScript ecosystem begins to re-orient itself towards solving the fundamental flaws that allowed this to happen.
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