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Re:Why I'm skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faste... by FridgeSeal on Sunday October 20, 2024 @07:09PM (#41899253)
Presumably because, apart from Python (see Ruff, uv, etc) most languages aren’t running into such major issues with their own “self hosted” tooling that it’s worthwhile to rewrite several of them in a completely different language.
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Re:Why I'm skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faste... by mardifoufs on Sunday October 20, 2024 @07:23PM (#41899347)
Yes I agree! And JavaScript also isn't really at that point yet. Python is really in a class of its own here... sadly enough.

Though I don't see an issue with tools for JS built without JS. It's just that I don't think that it's a bad thing for a JavaScript dev to want the ecosystem around JavaScript to be written in JS. JS is orders of magnitudes faster than python in any case.

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Re:Why I'm skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faste... by wiseowise on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @02:46AM (#41911824)
God what I’d do if someone wrote build system in Rust for JVM and freed us from Maven and Gradle.
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