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0 pointsechopom5y ago0 comments

> Just because they are attempting to address it does not mean they will succeed.

Strongly agree this statement , hence I don't see how switching from "npm" to "raw urls" will solve anything...

The problem with Node dependency is bigger than just "npm is not a good package manager"... Honestly in this case just fork node and replace npm with something else...

Here the problem relies on a mixture between poor built-in apis which are buggy a lack of vision with the language , which have been core to the language since it's origin.;.

Deno doesn't seems to address those at all...

Again it's just seems to be "npm is bad , and i want to use typescript natively with web apis"...

I just know very well that Ryan is redoing exactly the same mistakes as Node with the same obsession he had on "EPOLL"[0] back then that will end up in a new fiasco.

[0]https://youtu.be/M3BM9TB-8yA Can't find the specific part where he mentioned "EPOLL"

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tarruda5y ago

> I just know very well that Ryan is redoing exactly the same mistakes as Node with the same obsession he had on "EPOLL"[0] back then that will end up in a new fiasco.

"epoll" is a Linux API for listening on multiple file descriptors. Different platforms have equivalent APIs, and these are normally core of any scalable non-blocking I/O network program.

Can you elaborate why do you think he had an obsession with "epoll"? More importantly, can you elaborate what was the fiasco? Epoll is still used under the hoods by Node.js (through libuv) and many other network servers such as Nginx

v8dev1235y ago

npm maybe bloated but I'd say it's better than pip. pip is insane, you have to set up virtual env (hurts UX) but with node you don't have to.

e12e5y ago

> (...) will end up in a new fiasco.

Are you saying nodejs is a fiasco?

gadrev5y ago

re-[0]: 15:43

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