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by dboreham 809 days ago
Agree. JS/TS is not a good environment for large software projects maintained over a long period of time. I'm not 100% convinced Rust is either, yet. cargo seems to be a dumpster fire. Build tools generate TB of mystery disk bloat. Obsession with async... hopefully these issues can be resolved.
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> Build tools generate TB of mystery disk bloat.

No, it's not TB, it's a few GB for small projects, and tens of GB for large projects. Rarely does a project ever get over 30-40GB.

> Obsession with async...

If you're going to want any amount of decent performance, you're going to have to deal with async. That's just the nature of IO bound applications.

> JS/TS is not a good environment for large software projects maintained over a long period of time.

VSCode disagrees with you. Its codebase is fascinating btw.