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I publish a package with zero deps and people still pull in a pile of transitive stuff from their lockfile. "pg" has 13 dependencies and nobody even blinks. One gets compromised and suddenly every Node backend using Postgres is in scope. Bun shipping native drivers feels like the right call, fewer moving parts.

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I understand the general point you're making, but the pg package isn’t a good example. It has 6 deps, not 13, and 5 of those are internal packages from the same monorepo without additional dependencies. There’s only a single external dependency, and that one brings in just one additional package.

In my opinion, the pg repo and packages are an example of how OSS stuff should be maintained. Clean repo, clean code, well-maintained readme, and clearly focus on keeping things simple instead of overcomplicating.

You still need to pull 13 extra deps that could be compromised.

Fair point, I was counting what lands in node_modules rather than direct deps. And most of those are brianc's monorepo packages so the trust surface is way smaller. Bad example on my part.

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