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Re:Let's Package JQuery: A JavaScript Packaging Dystopian No... by Animats on Saturday May 02, 2015 @03:43AM (#9476257)
From the article: "Our deployment and build setups have gotten so complicated that I doubt anyone really has a decent understanding of what is going on, really."

There's now a school of thought in the Rust world that it's easier to just build a static executable and ship that.

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Re:Let's Package JQuery: A JavaScript Packaging Dystopian No... by quanticle on Saturday May 02, 2015 @05:25AM (#9476447)
I think Go also follows this philosophy.
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Re:Let's Package JQuery: A JavaScript Packaging Dystopian No... by davexunit on Saturday May 02, 2015 @08:33AM (#9476824)
>There's now a school of thought in the Rust world that it's easier to just build a static executable and ship that.

If that's where we're headed, I'm extremely sad. Static linking everything is a lazy non-solution, IMO. Rampant duplication, increased resource usage, etc. Not good.

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