Complaints about an app that: 1. wants Mysql not MariaDB, 2. stopped supporting Debian packages & only ships Ubuntu packages, 3. complains about an old version

Complaints about an app that: 1. wants Mysql not MariaDB, 2. stopped supporting Debian packages & only ships Ubuntu packages, 3. complains about an old version of npm (unknown what the author started with), 4. complains about the author using a deprecated & unsupported version of node.js This is just like one app. None of these are uniquely JS problems & half arent JS problems at all, in spite of the hater-header. In my view, the app didn't bend over backwards to cater to a bunch of tech-whims the user has, and the user is super salty about it. Maybe don't put yourself through such a struggle! This is exactly why we have containers: so you can easy-mode your way through, and never think about most of these problems & things just work. You don't get to take the hard path and then whine that your specific crusty old box isn't still supported with zero effort. And to blame this on JS ecosystem? Typical. The hatred, the animosity against sprawling techno-diversity is unbelievably dark-side, has roots in a scared authoritarianism. It's just popular to hate on, and the complaints never seem to mirror what an educated JS developer might offer as a critique, of which I think we could/do offer many; it so regularly feels enormously low-signal, marks poorly upon the character of the complainers. I'm for catharsis and pouring out some of your hatred, but gee, so much of the JS anger feels facetiously low-dimensional. JS- like all rife open source ecosystems- is by definition a bazaar, not a cathedral, and life is not going to be as blissfully simple as you might want. We balance what is possible against what is well defined, and interesting things keep happening when we favor what is possible (bottom-up) above what is well-defined (top-down). Try not to get so tarnished & bitter about it. There's a lot of upside too. Open source is good, actually. Us having done so much, explored so widely, is good, actually.