Re:Python finally offloads some batteries
by lmm on Thursday March 17, 2022 @11:50PM
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A large "standard platform" may be a good thing, but it should definitely be decoupled from the language proper. (And personally I would say Javascript is doing it better than most languages on the library management front).
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Eh, it's hard to talk about JavaScript because of all the different layers. My personal take is: JavaScript itself (ECMAScript) is an ugly and flawed but clearly generally productive language; Node is a work of art; NPM is horrendous with near-to-no redeeming qualities. TypeScript redeems lots of the problems with JavaScript, and I'm hopeful that Deno will ameliorate a lot of the problems with NPM (Yarn is good for what it is, but barely covers 3% of the necessary changes).
Also, an honorary mention for ESBuild (and the lesser-known SWC, extremely similarly optimal but eking out a small win due to Rust's advantages over Go). Both of them are terrific improvements over the extant tooling.