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Re:Deno on MDN by spankalee on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:51AM (#28277714)
Import maps are great if you know all the mappings you want to make.

That requires that you know every way that conceptually the same packages are imported in the entire transitive module graph, which is hard enough on its own, but also requires crawling the whole live module graph to discover all the imports. I don't see how this isn't just npm-but-worse.

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Re:Deno on MDN by whateveracct on Monday August 23, 2021 @12:10PM (#28278068)
It'll eventually evolve into npm-but-different once Deno gains more adoption and its users learn they need a real package manager. And the cycle continues.
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