Node Modules
Node Modules
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want to compile 50kb C++ console app on windows
6 GB MSVC installation
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"It's so easy to compile C/C++ apps on Linux"
"Just run make install"
"If it doesn't work, fuck you, it worked on my machine"
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I keep seeing complaints from non JavaScript developers about their IDE not handling millions of files in a folder properly
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Depending on the design of its memory, a device with a full drive will literally weigh slightly more or slightly less than one with an empty drive. Charging the battery in all cases causes it to weigh more.
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Then marketing comes around, asks to add google tag manager, and proceeds to make the client download 10TB of tracking librairies.
At least node_modules don't directly impact the browser.
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The tag manager ones always have console errors too lol
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Even if you rawdog the internet with no ad blocker. Actually, especially if you do that.
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lol at 3/4 of a megabyte of Vue components being ok and thinking node_modules is the issue at hand.
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A package manager that does hard-linking helps.
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I feel like every time I've suggested pnpm I got eyerolls :(
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The joke is always Javascript
JavaScript itself is fine. The problem is developers who import a library to add two numbers.
Excuse me, but it’s industry practice to always use PlusJs.
Its just annoying that it has its own dependency on MinusJs.
Maybe we wouldn't need external libraries to do basic things if JavaScript had a standard library
I don't know about "fine". It has a lot of weird stuff baked in. Hoisting. Unexpected type coercion. Too many ways to loop over something and I always forget which one is which. "There's more than one way to do it" is kind of a recurring problem, come to think of it. Several function declaration syntaxes. Dot notation AND bracket notation for objects.
Also it will forever bother me that object keys aren't quoted.
const foo = "hello";const bar = { foo: "world" }That should be, in my mind,
{ "hello": "world" }. It's not. It's{ "foo": "world" }But if you want to do that, you need to do
const bar = { [foo]: world }. Which looks like your key is an array with one entry, a string with a value of "foo"You also end up learning a whole framework, with its syntax and idioms, every couple years. Angular. React. Redux. Whatever.
There's also a lot of people who have never used anything else, and want to use javascript for everything.
Javascript is basically D&D. Wildly popular. Full of legacy jank. People try to use it for anything even though there are better or more specialized tools.
Use the modulo operator? Nah. Need to import the isEven library and a ton of other unnecessary sub-50 LOC libraries "maintained" by a single dev to make their CV look more impressive. /s
Oh Hells no.
JavaScript is NOT fine, it's .... I'm really trying to think of a word that will convey the shit that it is without triggering half the people on Lemmy into an aneurysm, but I can't find it.
JavaScript is by far the worst. I've been working with JavaScript for the past 6 days and I want to hang myself, it'd be a better fate than continuing
Or ship a browser to run a script.
console.log([] == [])