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> Two hours of work after 4 years sounds ... perfectly acceptable? Does it, though? Node wasn't exactly new 4 years ago, and plenty of other languages would of

• mvkel 2y ago
  Define "better experience." 1.5 hours to get running again? 1? In exchange for needing to run C? How many hours would it take to build a Node app equivalent in C, I wonder.
  • regularfry 2y ago
    0 would be fine. I'd take 0. This could all have been avoided if the interpreter version had been recorded by default somewhere. That's all this needed.
• demosthanos 2y ago
  > Java 50% of Java developers are still regularly working in Java 8 [0], which is the same solution that the author could have arrived at immediately—when starting up an old project after 4 years, use the same version you ran last time, don't try to update before you even have the thing running. > C, C++ Not my experience, but maybe it depends on your operating system and distro? In my experience sorting through the C libs and versions that you need to install on your system to build a new project can easily take a few hours. [0] https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2023/java/ https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2023/java/