News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The State of JavaScript – Survey results. Parent comment

Re:The State of JavaScript – Survey results by anamoulous on Monday October 03, 2016 @03:12PM (#12630405)
> Semantic versioning has been around for quite some time. I used it when I did Java and C# development; is it really that weird? Is there something about it that's weird?

I'm talking about the various schisms that have led to this page: https://nodejs.org/en/download/releases/

It's not a big deal once you familiarize yourself with what everything means, it's just a good example of some ecosystem baggage.

The ubiquity of using babel to get future language features also obscures the relevance of any one version of the runtime.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The State of JavaScript – Survey results by BinaryIdiot on Monday October 03, 2016 @08:31PM (#12632498)
Oh yeah io.js really, really hurt the entire ecosystem in my opinion. The versions were confusing, npm was being used as the package manager for both without a good way to target either one specifically and io.js was introducing breaking changes. It was absolute insanity.
[ Parent | on HN ]