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It's because it has a smart-sounding name. Some people are shallow and performative; some nice-looking blog post says they can have "atomic architecture", then

It's because it has a smart-sounding name. Some people are shallow and performative; some nice-looking blog post says they can have "atomic architecture", then the trend starts and everybody wants to show how enlightened they are.

williamcotton 6mo ago
That’s not how we started down this path. See snark-free sibling comment from padjo.
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- RadiozRadioz 6mo ago
  Both my claim and theirs are unsupported by evidence, therefore they are equally valid.
  - padjo 6mo ago
    A third argument is that it was because of aliens from the planet Blotrox Prime. But I suppose without evidence we'll just have to accept that all three theories are equally probable.
    - RadiozRadioz 6mo ago
      Interesting how you decided to switch to hyperbole instead of providing evidence for your claim. Backing up your viewpoint would have easily shut me down, putting the ball in my court to do the same. Instead you gave a knee-jerk childish response.
      - padjo 6mo ago
        Interesting that rather than try to bolster your claim you resorted to a logical fallacy to justify it.
        RadiozRadioz 6mo ago
        Hypocritical; you did the same with the hyperbole. Why are you stooping to my level instead of being the better person?
        padjo 6mo ago
        Nope. Just a reductio as absurdum that you decided to counter by asking that I maintain higher standards of debate than you. The notion that atomic architecture came about because people are stupid and performative is not really useful. Its fairly misanthropic and begs the question why it became so prevalent in JS specifically.
whstl 6mo ago
It's not just the name or the smart explanation. Atomic packages brings more money to the creators. If you have two useful packages it's hard to ask for money, even if they're used by Babel or some popular React dependency. If you have 900 packages that are transitive dependencies the same couple deps above, it's way easier to get sponsorship. This is a way to advertise themselves: "I maintain 1000 packages". The first guy that did this in a not-nice way was a marketing/salesperson and has mentioned that they did on purpose to launch their dev career. TLDR: This is just some weird ass pyramid thing to get Github sponsors or clout.

williamcotton 6mo ago

That’s not how we started down this path. See snark-free sibling comment from padjo.

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RadiozRadioz 6mo ago
Both my claim and theirs are unsupported by evidence, therefore they are equally valid.
- padjo 6mo ago
  A third argument is that it was because of aliens from the planet Blotrox Prime. But I suppose without evidence we'll just have to accept that all three theories are equally probable.
  - RadiozRadioz 6mo ago
    Interesting how you decided to switch to hyperbole instead of providing evidence for your claim. Backing up your viewpoint would have easily shut me down, putting the ball in my court to do the same. Instead you gave a knee-jerk childish response.
    - padjo 6mo ago
      Interesting that rather than try to bolster your claim you resorted to a logical fallacy to justify it.
      - RadiozRadioz 6mo ago
        Hypocritical; you did the same with the hyperbole. Why are you stooping to my level instead of being the better person?
        padjo 6mo ago
        Nope. Just a reductio as absurdum that you decided to counter by asking that I maintain higher standards of debate than you. The notion that atomic architecture came about because people are stupid and performative is not really useful. Its fairly misanthropic and begs the question why it became so prevalent in JS specifically.

whstl 6mo ago

It's not just the name or the smart explanation. Atomic packages brings more money to the creators. If you have two useful packages it's hard to ask for money, even if they're used by Babel or some popular React dependency. If you have 900 packages that are transitive dependencies the same couple deps above, it's way easier to get sponsorship. This is a way to advertise themselves: "I maintain 1000 packages". The first guy that did this in a not-nice way was a marketing/salesperson and has mentioned that they did on purpose to launch their dev career. TLDR: This is just some weird ass pyramid thing to get Github sponsors or clout.