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by noodletheworld 26 days ago
I appreciate the effort to bring things together in this but…

> Vite+ will manage your global Node.js runtime and package manager.

What? Why?

You’re really going all-in if you adopt this; and… for what? A bit of cozy tooling around existing standard ways of doing things?

Ok, sure; I like tools, like vite.

…but even for an opinionated tool, this is extraordinarily opinionated. Like next.js

Im skeptical.

The pitch of bringing things together seems strong, but did we go too far here?

Reading reviews of people using this didn't really convince me.

It seems to be running on the coat tails of the vite name, rather than its own merit.

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Seen this play out again and again: a tool becomes popular, starts incorporating other tools, including mananging language runtime versions. It wants to become the entire platform, to do everything with this one tool. After people get hooked and adapt their workflows to depend on it, inevitably it starts to enshittify. Repeat cycle with new tool.
That is one thing that makes me at least afraid of being too dependent of the uv in Python.