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by fearingreprisal 2204 days ago
What part of it couldn't you comprehend? I understand what the article is saying. I'm talking about the dysfunctional Node.js ecosystem, which includes Typescript.

In response to your personal experience, I'll share my own: I switched from C++ to Java, to .net, to Node.js, to Typescript. Working on Node/TS I have never been on a team that wastes so much time fixing silly problems that a better language would simply not allow to happen in the first place. I have also never worked on a team that spends so much time dealing with issues in poorly written community packages, or arguing with package maintainers who could never in a million years pass a technical skills test at the company I work for.
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zdragnar 2204 days ago
> arguing with package maintainers who could never in a million years pass a technical skills test at the company I work for.

So why on earth are you using their packages?

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reificator 2204 days ago
> I have also never worked on a team that spends so much time dealing with issues in poorly written community packages, or arguing with package maintainers who could never in a million years pass a technical skills test at the company I work for.

Excuse me for asking the obvious, but if they would never pass a technical skills test at the company you work for, why are the people who did pass using code that these maintainers wrote?

It sounds like the right approach is to sidestep them and fork the project yourselves. That way you'd clearly have a much more competent team maintaining it, and implementing all the features you need.

That is if you trust code written by someone of such standards in the first place. Really you should just rewrite it from scratch so that you know it's never been touched by anyone not at the competency level of your elite squad of code monkeys.

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untog 2204 days ago
> I'm talking about the dysfunctional Node.js ecosystem, which includes Typescript.

Deno is, by definition, not Node.js. Typescript can live outside of Node (like when it's compiled for and runs in the browser). So I think you're getting downvotes because it reads like a generic rant about the same things we've already heard about in a context where it doesn't apply. I'm not going to argue with the notion that Node has many poorly written community packages, it does, but this core piece of Deno functionality does not use any.

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