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160 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 20 Oct 24 21:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.562s | source

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The biggest reason to be skeptical is that these tools are not open to extension in the same way that JavaScript is.

Webpack has an enormous community of third-party plugins, it would be very hard to do something similar with e.g. Go or Zig.

This is funny to me. Go and zig are built with the Unix shell in mind - the most extensible and modular system around.

The webpack ecosystem on the other hand is it’s own OS.

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1. dpritchett ◴[20 Oct 24 22:57 UTC] No.41899166[source]▶

Maybe for some the appeal of JS is in (hopefully) never having to learn Unix?

I’ve heard several folks say that about Kubernetes, but in my experience the *nix core always resurfaces the second things get weird.

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That certainly can be a benefit. But as we see here it also limits your thinking to that ecosystem.

Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages