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The Fate of the "Small" Open Source: the Era of Small, Low Value-Added Libraries Is over? the Llm Are the Coup De Grace, by Nolan Lawson

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The fate of the "small" open source: the era of small libraries with low added value as blob-util is over, the LLM are the coup de grace, by Nolan Lawson The most popular npm package I have ever written is by far blob-util, which is about 10 years old and records even more than 5 million downloads per week.It is a small collection of utilities allowing to work with blobs in JavaScript. I wrote it because I found that users...
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The fate of the "small" open source: the era of small libraries with low added value as blob-util is over, the LLM are the coup de grace, by Nolan Lawson The most popular npm package I have ever written is by far blob-util, which is about 10 years old and records even more than 5 million downloads per week.It is a small collection of utilities allowing to work with blobs in JavaScript. I wrote it because I found that users...

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Developpez.com broke the news in on Friday, January 2, 2026.
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