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The problem with build systems isn't the existence of a build step but the necessity of the build system and its configuration.

Typescript is baffling-ly complex to use compared to something like python.

> tsc build

What's complex about that?

To be fair, tsconfig.json has a ton of options, and you often can’t just use the defaults. It’s necessarily complex, unfortunately.

python runtime is great. bites back with the dependency versioning though