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Re:The tragedy of running an old Node project by LunaSea on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @10:43AM (#42194907)
Go would be much worse than Node.js in most cases since dependencies directly reference GitHub projects which could have been deleted whereas NPM has a cache and immutability guarantee which makes old NPM modules available and unchanged.
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Re:The tragedy of running an old Node project by thiht on Friday November 22, 2024 @12:30PM (#42215709)
You rely way less on dependencies when writing Go code though. That’s in big parts why it doesn’t break nearly as much (or at all).
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Re:The tragedy of running an old Node project by pipe01 on Friday November 22, 2024 @03:50PM (#42217264)
Go also has the goproxy
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