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I’m not really disputing any of that. My point is that the performance benefit of implementing a web UI build tool in a compiled language is not always insigni

I’m not really disputing any of that. My point is that the performance benefit of implementing a web UI build tool in a compiled language is not always insignificant. And as you conceded in another comment in the thread, you can use npm to distribute pre-compiled binaries, so I don’t think the “it’s too cumbersome to download a binary” argument holds much water either.

Klathmon 8y ago
We are on the same page! If the binaries are distributed over npm and work well in the npm ecosystem, them I'm all for it! My only reservations are about blindly writing things in compiled languages, or not using package managers at all because it's easier to distribute, which I don't think it is. One of the really good things sass did with the rewrite in dart was make the default installable package include the dart VM along with it. So the install process is almost identical to any other JS package, which is why IMO they did such an amazing job with it