Re:Deno: You don't need a build step
by kelnos on Thursday March 02, 2023 @08:17PM
(#35004544)
Builders and bundlers fail sometimes. I don't want to introduce an extra point of failure in my production services.
Maybe this is nice for local development. But really it just feels like the tooling version of a "code smell". If people think bundling/building is too slow, then people should work on making that faster. Maybe that means people need to stop writing JS builders/bundlers in JS, and use a language like Rust that has better performance characteristics. I wouldn't consider that a failure; it's just an admission that we should use the right tool for each job.
Speaking of Rust, the Rust compiler is fairly slow, but my proposed solution wouldn't be "get rid of it and have it dynamically compile at runtime", it's "profile it and make it faster" (which people are doing!).
Maybe this is nice for local development. But really it just feels like the tooling version of a "code smell". If people think bundling/building is too slow, then people should work on making that faster. Maybe that means people need to stop writing JS builders/bundlers in JS, and use a language like Rust that has better performance characteristics. I wouldn't consider that a failure; it's just an admission that we should use the right tool for each job.
Speaking of Rust, the Rust compiler is fairly slow, but my proposed solution wouldn't be "get rid of it and have it dynamically compile at runtime", it's "profile it and make it faster" (which people are doing!).