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I'll admit, I probably won't ever try this unless it gets some popularity behind it. That said, congrats on a pretty full-featured javascript package that has

I'll admit, I probably won't ever try this unless it gets some popularity behind it. That said, congrats on a pretty full-featured javascript package that has no dependencies. That's huge, especially in JS land. Mind if I ask which country that you live in that blocks npm? Just curious.

FailorTwist 9y ago
Thank you for the kind words! I mean, really -- it feels really cool to be appreciated by someone whom one's work has not brought the slightest benefit to. thanks again! to be honest, yes, by the time (if ever) this project takes off, transpiling has most probably become an obsolete tradition; so I totally agree with you on that. Ah, as for the country I come from, I will be more than glad (and very grateful) to talk to you about it through my public npm email, or my github email, whichever you find more convenient.....
malloryerik 9y ago
I don't know and am just guessing, but... https://medium.com/@evawxiao/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-software-development-behind-chinas-great-firewall-3e7109858cc6 https://medium.com/@evawxiao/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-softwa... "The scope of the Great Firewall has grown along with the internet. Sadly, it’s a highly adaptable and robust system. In terms of software development, it means that a growing number of services are permanently or sporadically blocked. One of those is NPM or Node Package Manager, an important tool for Node.js. To access NPM in mainland China, you’ll have to find workarounds like using a Chinese mirror. Another is Github, a popular version control and source code management tool that is occasionally blocked or at least throttled to be excruciatingly slow."
stephenr 9y ago
> I probably won't ever try this unless it gets some popularity behind it. Wow, the javascript community is militant about who picks flavour of the week and noone else trying other flavours huh?
- FailorTwist 9y ago
  he might be partially right, because I have not yet found time to write tests for certain functions of the transpiler (I have been effectively unemployed for a few months now and making ends meet is my only priority at the moment.) that said, I too believe sheer popularity may not always be a great heuristic to judge the stability of a piece of software with .....

FailorTwist 9y ago

Thank you for the kind words! I mean, really -- it feels really cool to be appreciated by someone whom one's work has not brought the slightest benefit to. thanks again! to be honest, yes, by the time (if ever) this project takes off, transpiling has most probably become an obsolete tradition; so I totally agree with you on that. Ah, as for the country I come from, I will be more than glad (and very grateful) to talk to you about it through my public npm email, or my github email, whichever you find more convenient.....

malloryerik 9y ago

I don't know and am just guessing, but... https://medium.com/@evawxiao/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-software-development-behind-chinas-great-firewall-3e7109858cc6 https://medium.com/@evawxiao/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-softwa... "The scope of the Great Firewall has grown along with the internet. Sadly, it’s a highly adaptable and robust system. In terms of software development, it means that a growing number of services are permanently or sporadically blocked. One of those is NPM or Node Package Manager, an important tool for Node.js. To access NPM in mainland China, you’ll have to find workarounds like using a Chinese mirror. Another is Github, a popular version control and source code management tool that is occasionally blocked or at least throttled to be excruciatingly slow."

stephenr 9y ago

> I probably won't ever try this unless it gets some popularity behind it. Wow, the javascript community is militant about who picks flavour of the week and noone else trying other flavours huh?

FailorTwist 9y ago
he might be partially right, because I have not yet found time to write tests for certain functions of the transpiler (I have been effectively unemployed for a few months now and making ends meet is my only priority at the moment.) that said, I too believe sheer popularity may not always be a great heuristic to judge the stability of a piece of software with .....