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Re:Node-iMessage – Query iMessage from terminal and Node.js by pdpi on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @07:18AM (#8589451)
How so? Nothing about it has struck me as being particularly unusual.
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Re:Node-iMessage – Query iMessage from terminal and Node.js by bendrucker on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @09:44AM (#8589999)
Node uses hierarchical dependencies so different dependencies can get their own version of a particular package. I'd agree that this is hardly innovative, but definitely a lot more user friendly than Ruby. npm is great but would agree that attributing Node's popularity to it is unfounded.
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Re:Node-iMessage – Query iMessage from terminal and Node.js by tonyarkles on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @10:56AM (#8590418)
It's a blessing and a curse. When a package is tied to a buggy version of a dependency, it's not a lot of fun to try to get the upgraded version in without either forking your dependencies or trying to get everything fixed upstream.

On the flip side, it is nice when (compared to ruby) you have two dependencies that depend on incompatible versions of the same library.

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