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Re:Why I'm skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faste... by paulddraper on Sunday October 20, 2024 @09:40PM (#41899976)
You can ship a 20MB Go program and no one blinks.

Go programs start at 20MB. The Go AWS Terraform provider is something like 300MB.

A massive amount of the complexity/difficulty in webdev build tools space has to with optimizing delivery sizes on the web platform.

Node.js tooling is straightforward comparatively.

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Re:Why I'm skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faste... by paulddraper on Monday October 21, 2024 @01:56PM (#41906596)
To be clear: Server-side Node.js tooling is relatively simple. It the web tooling (Webpack, etc) that is complicated.
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