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webpack is a problem

Short version

This thing I said in a chat room one time:

webpack is so unknowable that everyone decided to give up on knowing their tools

Slightly less short version

This other thing I said one time:

my main complaint with webpack is this huge divide it causes between tooling/plugin authors and tooling/plugin consumers. It's very hostile to people who just want to dip their toe in and write a quick one-off plugin if they need slightly special behavior for their particular project. Everyone's using plugins they don't understand, and there's this 'better leave that to the experts'/'just tell me the recipe' mentality that seems harmful

Long version

Coming sometime.

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