Is-even Memes

Someone's literally writing an isEven() function from scratch by checking if a number equals 0, 1, 2, or 3 individually and returning true/false accordingly. The beauty here is the complete disregard for the modulo operator ( num % 2 === 0 ) that every developer learns in week one. The plot twist? Kenny's response pointing out that there's literally an NPM package called is-even for this. Because why write 4 lines of cursed if-statements when you can install a dependency that probably has 47 transitive dependencies? The JavaScript ecosystem in a nutshell: someone already packaged your bad idea, and it has 2 million weekly downloads. Bonus points for coding this on an airplane like it's some urgent production hotfix that can't wait until landing. When the coding urge hits, altitude is just a number.

The JavaScript ecosystem has evolved into a bizarre bazaar of utility packages with download counts that would make NASA jealous. We've got packages to check if numbers are odd (1.5M downloads/month), even (712K/month), or negative zero (98M/month)! Meanwhile, "is-primitive" quietly collects 12M downloads monthly for telling us if something is... wait for it... primitive. Revolutionary stuff. But the crown jewel? "kind-of" with a staggering 438M downloads/month to determine a value's type—something JavaScript can do natively with typeof. It's like buying bottled air when you're already outside. The NPM ecosystem: where we collectively decided that typing "number % 2 === 0" was just too much work. And we wonder why our node_modules folder needs its own zip code.