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Javascript seems to be its own wild west these days. There's multiple runtimes available so people use it everywhere. The language is reasonably flexible and
by josteink 11y ago
Javascript seems to be its own wild west these days.
There's multiple runtimes available so people use it everywhere.
The language is reasonably flexible and there's no enforced conventions, so every library-writer creates their own.
There's no real standard library, so everyone and their grandmother is implementing their own.
There's no real module-system, so everyone is inventing their own.
There's no standard build-system so everyone is creating their own.
The result is a wonderful mess of lots things not really going too well together. Does this remind us of something we have disregarded earlier for exactly the same reasons?
Oh yes it does! Hey, LISP. It seems we're still secretly in love with you :)
- cheez 11y agoI've been dealing with this mess for the last little while and it reminds me of c++: you need to create your own workflow more than with other languages like python.
- lollipop25 11y agoBeing a JS dev myself, I really hate how they just pile tool after tool just because they can. Kinda defeats the original design of JS.