>npm is already that package manager :)
No, we should be working to replace NPM and the bad influence of the javascript community, not double down on their ubiquity. We should be able to do a lot better than sticking with NPM and wrapping everything in Chromium.
Re:Rust and WebAssembly in 2019
by bayesian_horse on Sunday December 16, 2018 @05:21AM
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No need to replace the millions of packages in npm. I predict there will never be a shortage of new javascript frameworks...
No, npm is not THAT package manager. What I am talking about is a way for a user's Browser to download for example a Python 3.7.1 runtime (and similar packages) once, and use it on different sites and applications.
In the simplest form Google or Python.org could serve these files on a CDN. In a more complicated form you could run an application on a range of Python versions, and only download updates when you want and need them.
Re:Rust and WebAssembly in 2019
by steveklabnik on Sunday December 16, 2018 @05:55AM
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Ah, yeah. We’ll see if it happens.
A CDN may happen; there’s some details that make it tough. We’ll see.
npm is already that package manager :)