Re:The tragedy of running an old Node project
by elashri on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @09:00AM
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Apps that rely on OS provided Webview and electron apps are totally different situation. This is exactly what I said. And no, they don't use any standard nodejs installation like python. And they are different as I said. so this is still apples to orange comparison.
Re:The tragedy of running an old Node project
by LamaOfRuin on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @09:14AM
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>Apps that rely on OS provided Webview and electron apps are totally different situation.
No, they're not. I'm talking about core apps and services that are essential to a functional operating system. This is exactly the same situation. The difference is choices made by the OS and language ecosystem about how to manage dependencies in various use-cases. It is an apples to oranges comparison because of those decisions and not because of the language.
They may or may not be running Node.js specifically, but I believe that many Linux distributions, as well as Windows, include JavaScript code in core applications. I don't see this as particularly different, except that they might choose to assume a single standard system Python that is able to be modified by standard Python development, whereas I would rarely expect that to be the case with however each component chooses to execute JavaScript.