Comment Re:How did this happen? (Score 1) 16
a simple hello world app should not have that many dependencies, on the other hand, a javascript web app is a gui and that alone is going to bring in a ton of crap.
I just got done moving a provisioning app (fed by xml, not a gui) to a new machine and had to deal with a seemingly endless bunch of dependencies - xml, database connections, service interface libraries etc. It's a nightmare, and yet the alternative is custom code in each app, which is a completely different, and much worse, nightmare.