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It’s entirely possible to write good and efficient software with node without requiring an excess of dependencies. It just requires strong responsibility and g
by geuis 6y ago
It’s entirely possible to write good and efficient software with node without requiring an excess of dependencies.
It just requires strong responsibility and good practices.
- jacquesm 6y agoOk, I concede it is possible. Just like going to the moon is possible. But in practice everything I see that pulls in the node ecosystem even peripherally suffers from this. 100's of dependencies are not rare at all, and some of those on the most obscure packages.
- geuis 6y agoYou aren’t wrong. After years of seeing things going that way, I’m hyper critical of any new additions I make to my own software or anything my team is working on.
- errantspark 6y agoCouldn't agree more. To expand on the point a bit I feel that Node (and JS in general, and other wildin' langs like C++ too) mostly have disadvantages that can be circumvented with discipline while keeping their advantages intact. Go and related crew on the other hand impose discipline as a language feature, and if you circumvent it (if you even can) you're missing much of the point of the language.