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Re:Parcel – A fast, zero configuration web application bundler by amazingman on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @02:50PM (#15855148)
The cycle described here is perfectly acceptable in principle, not to mention unavoidable in practice. Our developer tools will stop changing when humans stop changing.
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Re:Parcel – A fast, zero configuration web application bundler by brucephillips on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @05:49PM (#15856833)
Not really. Fragmentation is only inevitable when there exist feature tradeoffs. If Parcel's advantage is parallelism and caching, it's possible those features could have been added to Webpack.
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Re:Parcel – A fast, zero configuration web application bundler by iinnii on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @08:00PM (#15857676)
Having one tool that is configurable for all problems often becomes a mess and even harder to use.
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Re:Parcel – A fast, zero configuration web application bundler by yoz-y on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @06:41AM (#15860356)
But the solution to this is to make more tools with different tradeoffs. Not to add features to the tool that was supposed to be simple at the beginning.
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Re:Parcel – A fast, zero configuration web application bundler by brucephillips on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @08:19PM (#15857749)
You're correct, of course. I consider "simplicity" to be a feature, which is almost always at odds with other features.
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Re:Parcel – A fast, zero configuration web application bundler by mempko on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @06:55PM (#15857338)
You have never used Tex....
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