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You are kidding, right? The JavaScript ecosystem is a garbage dump of infinite dependencies. I refuse to install any random projects that use it. This fact alone is more than enough reason to justify this effort, as I am hardly the only developer that feels this way about it.

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pi has pretty minimal dependencies.

And you are missing the point. The author spends basically zero effort explaining why he made this choice. None. I have no idea if what you say is why he did it. Probably not! because (again!) you haven't escaped Node if you're still using Pi extensions written in TS.

You do escape the Node garbage, because Pi extensions in TS are now optional and not mandatory anymore. I would re-write every TS extension that I have in Rust or Python just that I don't need to deal with the Node hell.

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