Re:I finally escaped Node
by chrisandchris on Thursday March 25, 2021 @03:49AM
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Strongly disagree.
Who maintains day.js? It‘s (i did not look, i guess) not the same people that develop the JavaScript standard library. At some point, day.js is abandoned or breaks something and nobody is going to fix it because it is abandoned, or even worse, soneone creates a fork and fixes it there and now we have 2 day.js.
If it is in the standard library, you have a guarantee that it works today, works tomorrow and with a quite high certainty still works the day after. There are not that many languages that successfully break backwards compatibility often.
And don‘t get me started with the legal aspect. There are many projects where one cannot simply pull another dependency just to calculate a date diff.
Who maintains day.js? It‘s (i did not look, i guess) not the same people that develop the JavaScript standard library. At some point, day.js is abandoned or breaks something and nobody is going to fix it because it is abandoned, or even worse, soneone creates a fork and fixes it there and now we have 2 day.js.
If it is in the standard library, you have a guarantee that it works today, works tomorrow and with a quite high certainty still works the day after. There are not that many languages that successfully break backwards compatibility often.
And don‘t get me started with the legal aspect. There are many projects where one cannot simply pull another dependency just to calculate a date diff.