Libraries are great, lets reduce the amount we have.
I was tinkering around with NodeJS and running sub processes using the spawn method from NodeJS. I wanted to protect myself from, well, myself and escape the data is send to the method. Searching for it made me run into this issue in the NodeJS repository, where they are talking about implement argument escaping to NodeJS itself.
The next thing I ran into was the shell-quote library, that does exactly what I wanted. To my horror I saw it being downloaded 25 million times a week, though a small library, it still racks up ~500GB of weekly data.
If we could include the functionality of the shell-quote library into NodeJS we could reduce the amount of data send over the web, it should not be a ~500GB a week reduction as NodeJS will become larger, but my asumption is that it's generally not redownloaded as often as libraries.
This is the list of libraries / functionality that I believe should be part of the NodeJS run time.
- shell-quote - escaping shell arguments, enable using a option for backwards compatibility. Made default during a major release?