[jiggawatts]

Another comment has explained this already, but the lack of dependency pinning and the general "it's just a script" attitude isn't conducive to long-term stability. During the early days of the llama local LLM runner, I was shocked to discover that releases weren't buildable mere days after being tagged in Git! Days!

Other platforms like Java and .NET enjoy one to two decades of life for source before it becomes mildly challenging to build.

[wiseowise]

> Other platforms like Java and .NET enjoy one to two decades of life for source before it becomes mildly challenging to build.

Java enjoys months of life for source before it becomes impossible to build, because some prehistoric version of Gradle with shitty Groovy script stopped working.

[liampulles]

I think that is a totally fair criticism. There is something to be said about a language being too easy to hack something together with, it's something that makes backend JavaScript coding a long term pain as well I think.