> wrt Java Not just Java. Python, Ruby, Node etc suffer from the same problem. And I am talking as an end-user here. I once downloaded something based on one

> wrt Java Not just Java. Python, Ruby, Node etc suffer from the same problem. And I am talking as an end-user here. I once downloaded something based on one runtime which then proceeded to download another runtime which it needed to run one little script. There are programs out there that have node/npm as a dependency.[1] People are crazy. > your 3 listed reasons make a very argument for "a normal compiled language" One of my hobbies involves writing compilers and parsers.[2][3] I have tried a lot of "normal" languages and have stuck to Java (in spite of its excessive verbosity) for work reasons. Some languages I cannot tolerate for aesthetic reasons. For now, there is no alternative to TypeScript. > you wrote software 2 ways: shellscripts and Java. You replaced them with...any entirely new interpreted language(JS) I used to run a mixed-environment (Windows + Linux) and a lot of glue code that drove other software had to be written twice (sh/bash + cmd/bat) before WSL came along. That problem has disappeared. I also used to write a lot of tools (servers and cli apps) in Java. Some of those I have moved over TypeScript-on-Deno. > I'm not denigrating JS/deno/node/whatever I used to look down on JS a decade or so back. My experience with Rhino and now Deno changed that. There is a lot of stuff I do now which I simply would not do if I have to fire up an entire Java project to do. [1] https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/nodejs/ https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/nodejs/ [2] https://github.com/s-i-e-v-e/ut https://github.com/s-i-e-v-e/ut [3] https://github.com/s-i-e-v-e/sxml https://github.com/s-i-e-v-e/sxml