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by rhardih 2536 days ago
What's this!? No Javascript runtime, no NPM package dependencies. Can software really be built without it?

I jest of course. This is really cool and nice to see something like this, make the front page of HN for once!
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hombre_fatal 2536 days ago
Well, the downside is that now I can't be arsed to download/install it (not that it works on my platform). And the repository comes with a lot of build cruft instead of just some src files.

Trade offs, as usual.

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dahfizz 2536 days ago
It's one command to download and install the snap. How is that more onerous than pulling in hundreds of packages from npm?

And having "build cruft" is a feature for most non web devs. It would be trivial to set up a separate repo with all the build tools and configuration, but we want it nearby.

There's no tradeoffs here, IMO.

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saghm 2536 days ago
> And the repository comes with a lot of build cruft instead of just some src files.

Genuine question: what development toolchain lets you make a repo _doesn't_ have a bunch of files for the build process? GP specifically mentioned JavaScript, which I feel has an above-average amount of tooling in projects due to preprocessing the code in various ways being super common.

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