3 ms·

Then why build another incredibly slow dynamically typed monstrosity that breeds bugs and bad quality at industrial scale? Stop building JavaScript infrastructu

• nforgerit 3y ago
  C'mon it wasn't that bad. npm was a fun experiment on what could possibly go wrong with putting leftpad into a single package. For me it's still by far the best runtime to do anything event-alike/http/json/web. It's quick to develop small things and quick to deploy (if you omit the whole transpilation shenanigans which of course help if you have dozens of engineers working together).
• rektide 3y ago
  He took one of the fastest & most successful & invested in existing JS engines & bolted on a pretty decent standard library. Great winning move, where a ton of the hard part of language optimization & growth is other people's problems, & Ryan could focus on making a great developer experience, which he and izs (npm author) did.
• richardjam73 3y ago
  They probably realised after that was done.