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This is funny to me. Go and zig are built with the Unix shell in mind - the most extensible and modular system around.

The webpack ecosystem on the other hand is it’s own OS.

Maybe for some the appeal of JS is in (hopefully) never having to learn Unix?

I’ve heard several folks say that about Kubernetes, but in my experience the *nix core always resurfaces the second things get weird.

That certainly can be a benefit. But as we see here it also limits your thinking to that ecosystem.