I knew npm was a train wreck when I first used it years ago and it pulled in literally hundreds of dependencies for a simple app. I avoid anything that uses it like the plague.
Unix had a big scare last year because of XZ Utils.
I _know_ many don’t. In fact suggesting doing it is a good way to be looked at like a crazy person and be told something like “this is a yes place not a no place.”
We'd have to rely on the developer to notice, and check every line of code they ship, which might be the norm but certainly not 100% of cases.
Most of my career Node.JS has paid the bills and I'm very grateful to fate for that; but I have also worked in C/asm/etc for embedded firmware etc. Implying that the JS ecosystem is only comprised of terrible devs is classic gatekeeping holier than thou type shit.
You realize my point right? People are taught to not reinvent the wheel at work (mostly for good reasons) so that's what they do, me and you included.
You ain't gonna be bothered to write html and manual manipulation, the people that will give you libraries to do so won't be bothered reimplementing parsers and file watchers, file watcher writers won't be bothered reimplementing file system utils, file system utils developers won't be bothered reimplementing structured cloning or event loops, etc, etc.
I myself just the other day had the task of converting HTML to markdown, because I don't remember whether it was Jira or Github APIs that returns comments as HTML and despite it being mostly few hours of work that would get us 90% there everybody was in favor of pulling a dependency to do so (with its own dependencies) and thus further exposing our application to those risks.
https://github.com/williamcotton/markdown-to-html-llm
;)> I myself just the other day had the task of converting HTML to markdown
> you could write an HTML to markdown library in half a day
I try to avoid JS, as it is a horrible language, by design. That does include TS, but it at least is useable, but barely - because it still tied to JS itself.
Still, even I who'd call myself a JavaScript developer also try to avoid desktop applications made with just JS :)
It is full of gotchas that serves 0 purpose nowadays.
Also remember that it is basically a Lisp wearing Java skin on top, originally designed in less than 2 weeks.
Typescript is one of few things that puts safety barrier and sane static error checking that makes JS bearable to use - but it still has to fall down to how JS works in the end so it suffers from same core architectural problems.
What some people see as a fault, others see as a feature :) For me, that's there to prevent entire websites from breaking because some small widget in the bottom right corner breaks, for example. Rather than stopping the entire runtime, it just surfaces that error in the developer tools, but lets the rest to continue working.
Then of course entire web apps crash because one tiny error somewhere (remember seeing a blank page with just some short error text in black in the middle? Those), but that doesn't mean that's the best way of doing things.
> Also remember that it is basically a Lisp wearing Java skin on top
I guess that's why I like it better than TS, that tries to move it away from that. I mainly do Clojure development day-to-day, and static types hardly ever gives me more "safety" than other approaches do. But again, what I do isn't more "correct" than what anyone else does, it's largely based on "It's better for me to program this way".
the issue is that it prevents that, but also allows you to send complete corrupt data forward, that can create horrible cascade of errors down the pipeline - because other components made assumption about correctness of data passed to them.
Such display errors should be caught early in development, should be tested, and should never reach prod, instead of being swept under the rug - for anything else other than prototype.
but i agree - going fully functional with dynamic types beats average JS experience any day. It is just piling up more mud upon giant mudball,
TS is just too much overhead for the marginal gains.
Care to explain why?
My view is this: since you can write plain JS inside TS (just misconfigure tsconfig badly enough), I honestly don’t see how you arrive at that conclusion.
I can just about understand preferring JS on the grounds that it runs without a compile step. But I’ve never seen a convincing explanation of why the language itself is supposedly better.
We fcked up with js, big time and its with us forever now
But apparently they only made it do like 95% of what JS does so you can't actually replace js with it. To me it seems like a huge blunder. I don't give a crap about making niche applications a bit faster, but freeing the web from the curse of JS would be absolutely huge. And they basically did it except not quite. It's so strange to me, why not just go the extra 5%?
https://github.com/wasm-bindgen/wasm-bindgen https://docs.rs/web-sys/latest/web_sys/
This is also being worked on, in the future this 5% glue might eventually entirely disappear:
> Designed with the "Web IDL bindings" proposal in mind. Eventually, there won't be any JavaScript shims between Rust-generated wasm functions and native DOM methods
The only way to remove Js is to create a new browser that doesn't use it. Fragments the web, yes and probably nobody will use it
Any attempt to bypass this will be perilous.
A go desktop app rendered with OpenGL: 39MB starting size
So its smaller than Gpu rendered desktop app and I get to use CSS for styling which is very powerful
systems? rust - but it is still far from perfect, too much focus on saving few keystrokes here and there.
general purpose corporate development? c# - despite current direction post .net 5 of stapling together legacy parts of .net framework to .net core. it does most things good enough.
scripting, and just scripting? python.
web? there's only one, bad, option and that's js/ts.
most hated ones are in order: js, go, c++, python.
go is extremely infuriating, there was a submission on HN that perfectly encapsulated my feelings about it, after writing it for a while: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-...