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by zarzavat 7 days ago
It took the JS community many iterations to get to vite. Building it into the language just means you get stuck with a "good enough" solution that survives by inertia. We'd still be using webpack.

I'm all for building things into the language when there's only one way to do it though.

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Counter point; good enough is often... good enough

Go is the best example of this; it's boring but incredible stable and consistent

for sure! but there are lots of incremental shareable primitives that could help. I think about go's built in testing tools that can get extended as an example