On: “Open source” is broken

[debug-desperado]

A nightmare in Node world perhaps (our latest simple web server has over 2,000 dependencies).

In the Java world it’s much simpler with a few excludes in your POM. Especially for libraries that keep stable interfaces, such as a logging library.

[zaarn → debug-desperado]

How many excludes is Java going to ship is forking the problem of unmaintained libraries away becomes too much? When it reaches 5kb? 10kb? 100kb of excludes?