[dmitriid]

This brings us back to the fact that Deno loads random files from random URLs with no way to change it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29871936

[lucacasonato]

> with no way to change it

You are so wrong. If you would have done maybe 3 minutes of Googling you would know we support import maps, which allow you to arbitrary rewrite specifiers, even deep inside of the module graph.

[vorticalbox]

sure but is that not how a browser works?

for example to add bootstrap to a site you import like this

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.1.3/dist/js/bootstr..." integrity="sha384-ka7Sk0Gln4gmtz2MlQnikT1wXgYsOg+OMhuP+IlRH9sENBO0LRn5q+8nbTov4+1p" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

which is exactly the same as deno's "loads random files from random URLs"

[dmitriid]

> sure but is that not how a browser works?

Deno is not a browser.

> for example to add bootstrap to a site you import like this

I know how to import a file in a browser. However, Deno is not a browser. The whole subthread is about managing dependencies, which Deno fails at, and its proponents come up with the most ridiculous things to justify it.