It’s funny I’ve been looking at industrial strength build systems like Bazel (language independent build tool from Google) recently the past few months just to

It’s funny I’ve been looking at industrial strength build systems like Bazel (language independent build tool from Google) recently the past few months just to get an idea of how things work in that world. One of the things happening in that community at the moment was their second major attempt to bring the JavaScript / Typescript and Node ecosystem onboard as a semi official language. It has been a 4 year effort so far and they had to make a bunch of compromises along the way as you can see in the design section of the projects readme here https://github.com/aspect-build/rules_js https://github.com/aspect-build/rules_js Watching the walls they would continually run into where the answer would essentially be “Node is very unlike other language runtimes” was illuminating and I suddenly started to understand why projects like Deno want to actually leave Node behind as a fundamentally unfixable mess and start again with a bit more planning this time around to avoid all of those issues.