Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
by nahtnam on Monday October 22, 2018 @10:18PM
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I don't think many people here will agree with you but I do. I use Javascript for almost everything I do because "It just works." Assuming you are running Node 6.0+ and NPM 4+ you'll almost never run into an issue unless you are using something that needs some native packages installed.
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Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:16AM
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Or update packages?
NPM land is the only place I really have to be wary about package versions, because otherwise, even when following 6-months old tutorials you'll end up with nothing working due to breaking changes between library versions. And there are just so many dependencies to keep track of...
Re:Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others
by btashton on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:08AM
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But the native library issue is what makes it hard for Python as well. A large part of conda existing is to help data science people not have to worry about compiling native libraries for numpy or whatever ML library they happen to be using, since it bundles these libraries.