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Not sure if JavaScript has anything that any other language or development tool should copy.

• wilsonrocks 6y ago
  It is a mess... But you can often get a project running an awful lot quicker than in python
  • notdonspaulding 6y ago
    True, but if that's the metric we're basing our language choice off of then we should all go back to PHP.
    • PalzyPunk 6y ago
      Yeah no kidding. I prefer it as a prototyping language. Unfortunately, I work in networking, and it's become the raison d'etre for our "DevOps". At least we're not using Ansible anymore... :|
• nicoburns 6y ago
  JavaScript's package management is significantly better than Pythons: - There's one tool to use, and it comes pre-installed - You don't have to deal with virtualenvs or packages from different projects conflicting. - Native code dependencies "just work".
  • dboreham 6y ago
    That one tool must be yarnnpmgypbabelwebpack?
    • nicoburns 6y ago
      Babel and Webpack aren't package management tools. I guess there is now yarn in addition to NPM. But NPM works just fine. And furthermore they interoperate.
    • beckingz 6y ago
      which gets defined in Yet Another YAML Language
  • toyg 6y ago
    > You don't have to deal with virtualenvs or packages from different projects conflicting. That's only because you're basically assured there will be conflicts inside any single project. Every time I install anything via npm I get a boatload of warnings about insecure dependencies, which are effectively impossible to fix without breaking the whole mountain of hacks. There are good deployment stories out there. JS is not one of them.
    • nicoburns 6y ago
      > That's only because you're basically assured there will be conflicts inside any single project. That's not an issue with the package management though, that's an issue with the quality of the packages themselves. The JS ecosystem does have issues there. But the tooling itself is good.