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I've avoided Pyright explicitly for that reason. I have a severe dislike of Node, and don't want it installed on my computer for any reason. I'm aware that this is a self-limiting position.

Anyway, agreed that this is very exciting news. Poetry was great, and then I found uv. It's... wow. It's really good.

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Node is fine. This is very much old man shouts at cloud. Pyright is really quick. Node is fast enough for a majority of uses.

I don’t dislike it because it’s not fast enough; I dislike it because I associate with the rise of tech influencers, who are at best charlatans, and who at worst have helped to usher in an Eternal September far worse than Web2.0 could ever have dreamt of doing.

Node did this? A fully optional JS runtime that isn’t used in browsers? Who hurt you?

> Who hurt you?

Web devs; I thought that was implied.

Not old and not yelling at anything. I don’t have any qualms about installing tools that depend on Node, as I use VSCode and therefore Pyright all the time.

That said, Node is awful as a backend language, and speed has nothing to do with it. I will write Go, Python, Rust, or anything else because of how those languages have been designed. JS doesn’t belong in my backend—YMMV.

Tbh, i understand the hatred of node just from an administration perspective. I also avoid tooling just to avoid dealing with it (although, shout out to n rather than nvm).

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