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by mrweasel
1810 days ago
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I basically do no frontend development, partly due to tools npm and the current frameworks, I simply cannot wrap my head around it. I do help run a few modern javascript application however. Even a minimal app will pull in 1000+ dependecies, and I think that’s the problem. It simply don’t happen in Python, Go or Rust (or even Java) because the languages comes with a rich standard library. Javascript comes with just the basics, everything else is a dependency. It’s not uncommon for people to audit their dependencies in Python or Go, but you pull in maybe 10 or 20. A basic Javascript app easily pull in 100 times that, how are you suppose to deal with that? |
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This has not been my experience at all. Most Rust developers unfortunately seem quite happy to adopt modern programming bad practices. (There are many exceptions, of course.)
Example: I went with the first Rust program I could find installed on my computer, tealdeer. It's a dead simple program: run `tldr progname` and it will print a handful of examples of how to run `progname` in your terminal. Run `tldr --update` and it will download the latest version of the database containing these examples from a web server.
To build this extremely basic CLI program, I need ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN distinct crates.